On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote: > > This really is asking too much of the kernel. That's why we have > > userspace utilities like lsusb. > > > > For example, it wouldn't be hard to write a shell script that would > > take a device name like "4-2" and print out the information you want. > > The problem is that I want the information to be logged automatically in syslog. > Think of laptop-mode-tools or acpid or ACPI events from BIOS fiddling with my > devices and causing those resets. Sometimes PCI "restores" their config space > and it is way too late to run manually some utility hours later. Please log > automatically whatever is doable. I just wanted to raise this up. I don't think > usb core driver will call a shell script, so ... Just try to do something > in this direction. This really isn't necessary. All the information you want is already in the system log. It's merely a matter of locating it. I can show you how. If you post a complete dmesg log, starting from boot and running up to one of these errors, I'll point out the messages containing the relevant information. > I understand, the parent could be a PCI device or another USB device so it gets > more complicated quickly but the relevant information must be gathered immediately. It is a mistake to put too much functionality in the kernel. Today you want device IDs to be printed. Tomorrow somebody will want something else. Before you know it, the kernel will end up printing out the complete state of the system whenever anything happens! :-) Alan Stern -- 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
