On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 08:32:11PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 12:14:59PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 02:58:05PM -0500, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > Hubs have a flag to indicate whether a given port carries removable devices > > > or not. This is not strictly accurate in that some built-in devices > > > will be flagged as removable, but followup patches will make use of platform > > > data to make this more reliable. > > > > Really? What platform data is actually reliable for this? ACPI tables? > > Yup. > > > Does other operating systems do something with this data? If not, the > > odds of it being correct are pretty much nill, right? > > Yes, it's used by Windows. > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff553550%28v=vs.85%29.aspx > has some content on this. Nice, ok, I have no objection to this patch series, as long as you give me a Documentation/ABI update as well :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
