On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 03:14:17PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > > Apparently some devices put extra garbage at the end of their > configuration information. For the particular device considered here, > there's a device descriptor followed by an illegal length-1 descriptor. > (Note that configuration information should never include a device > descriptor -- or a configuration descriptor anywhere but at the start, for > that matter.) > > If we encounter this sort of thing, should we reject the entire device?
As much as I would like to, we really shouldn't. > Or should we simply stop parsing the configuration information at that > point? I think we should do this, along with a nice error message in the syslog saying what we just did. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
