Re: [PATCH v2] usb: core: introduce per-port over-current counters

[Richard Leitner]

Hi Greg,

On 03/09/2018 06:19 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
>> index 0bd731cbb50c..27020293c85b 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
>> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
>> @@ -189,6 +189,15 @@ Description:
>>  		The file will read "hotplug", "wired" and "not used" if the
>>  		information is available, and "unknown" otherwise.
>>  
>> +What:		/sys/bus/usb/devices/.../(hub interface)/portX/over_current_count
>> +Date:		February 2018
>> +Contact:	Richard Leitner <richard.leitner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> +Description:
>> +		Most hubs are able to detect over-current situations on their
>> +		ports and report them to the kernel. This attribute is to expose
>> +		the number of over-current situation occurred on a specific port
>> +		to user space. This file will contain an unsigned int.
> "unsigned int" is very vague :)
> 
> How about "this is a 32bit value"?
> 
> And what happens when this wraps?  Is that allowed?

Thank you for your feedback. I'll improve the description for v3!

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

regards;Richard.L