Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Jan 2017 20:47:07 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of driver probing |
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On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 12:31:45PM -0600, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@coreos.com> wrote: > > > > The USB authentication feature was intended for handling wireless USB > > devices - it can be reused for this, but the code isn't generic enough > > to apply to other bus types. The two interact in exactly the way you'd > > expect, ie they don't. If you use both, then you need to handle both. > > And as an example of why the USB authorisation feature isn't > sufficient - the interface configuration isn't picked until after > you've authorised the device, which means you can't necessarily tell > the difference between a keyboard and an ethernet adapter until after > you've authorised it.
You know the device type and vendor/product id before you authorize it, you should be able to do this type of detection otherwise it seems pretty pointless :)
> That defeats the object, but it can't be changed without breaking the > wireless USB case.
No one has wireless USB devices, this all works the same for any USB device :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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