On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Dunlap, Randy wrote:
> No. Mfr, Product, and SerialNumber strings for any device
> are only printed ifdef #CONFIG_USB_DEBUG.
>
> Are you suggesting that this should be changed or rethought?
I think this information should always be shown.
> Think about these questions:
>
> Do you think that users need to see their OHCI Root Hub
> "serial number" (aka I/O address)? Actually it (I/O address)
> is already printed (logged) at HCD init. Does it need to be
> repeated in /proc/bus/usb/devices?
>
> How many users will have more than one OHCI or UHCI root hub?
>
> Are you acting (questioning) as a developer (who needs DEBUG
> info) or as a user? Or as a developer who needs DEBUG
> info from a user? (That's one of the reasons that CONFIG_USB_DEBUG
> was made a *config build option.)
I am a relatively sophisticated user, not a developer. I think
that having some hardware configuration status info printed out
during boot and when devices are plugged in and removed is
helpful. At the very least, it informs users that the system
is operating correctly. Perhaps in the glory days of future
Linux USB nirvana, this kind of information will be unnecessary
because everything will just work. In the meantime, it is nice
to be reassured when things are working right and to have a
pointer to problems when things are going wrong.
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