Re: Walking the USB tree?

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On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 05:09:29PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 01:26:37PM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> > > Hi Alan,
> > > 
> > > In an upcoming patchset, I'm going to need to walk the USB tree in the
> > > xHCI driver in order to gather some information during a device
> > > configuration or alt setting change.  Is there anything stopping the USB
> > > tree from changing while this operation is in progress?
> > 
> > Not if you use the proper "walk the bus for all devices" functions that
> > the driver core provides.  Use them and you should be fine, right?
> 
> bus_for_each_dev() is always a possibility.  It doesn't tell you the
> tree ordering, and it will include all device structures registered to
> the usb_bus_type (including usb_interfaces as well as usb_devices, and
> also including devices below non-xHCI controllers).  If Sarah is okay
> with these limitations, it's easier than explicitly going through the
> tree by hand.

Unfortunately, I really need to comprehend the whole tree structure.  I
need to do things like figure out whether there are any LS or FS devices
under a HS hub.  usb_tt doesn't keep a list of "active" TTs.  I also
don't want usb_interfaces.

Sarah Sharp
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