Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] usb: gadget: f_fs: add ioctl returning ep descriptor

[Michal Nazarewicz]

>> On Fri, Jul 25 2014, Robert Baldyga wrote:
>>> This patch introduces ioctl named FUNCTIONFS_ENDPOINT_DESC, which
>>> returns endpoint descriptor to userspace. It works only if function
>>> is active.

> On 07/25/2014 04:15 PM, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>> I would argue that user space should never need to know the real
>> descriptor.  Is this ioctl needed for anything in particular?

On Mon, Jul 28 2014, Robert Baldyga <r.baldyga@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's needed, at least, to inform user space about maximum possible
> wMaxPacketSize value for the endpoint, which is returned by autoconfig
> through the endpoint descriptor when value set by user is zero.
>
> Descriptor returned form this ioctl is mostly the same as descriptor
> created by user. I guess you meant that real descriptor is this one,
> which contains real endpoint address, because it's probably only datum
> in real descriptor which should be never known by user space.
>
> This ioctl would be also useful in case, when FunctionFS daemon obtains
> endpoint descriptors from another daemon, and do not have access to
> original descriptor structures given do FunctionFS.

All right, I think I can go with that.

>>> Signed-off-by: Robert Baldyga <r.baldyga@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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