Re: [PATCH 1/2] rust: usb: add basic USB abstractions

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 04:16:36PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> On 23.09.25 16:13, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> > Functions like usb_fill_bulk_urb() takes a pointer to a usb_device, not
> > an interface.  Yes, we should fix that, but that "mistake" dates way way
> > way back to the original USB api decades ago.  So much so that I didn't
> > even remember that we used that pointer there :)
> 
> How would we do that? We need to be able to send at least control
> request to devices before we have established which configurations
> or interfaces the device has.

Oops, I thought that usb_dev in struct usb_interface was a pointer to
struct usb_device, but no, it's something else...  So no, we need to
keep that as-is for now.

thanks,

greg k-h