Re: [PATCH net v5 2/3] net: usb: ax88179_178a: add USB device driver for config selection

[Michal Pecio <michal.pecio@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2025 11:36:11 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > @@ -169,6 +175,12 @@ int usb_choose_configuration(struct usb_device *udev)
> >  #endif
> >  		}
> >  
> > +		/* Check if we have a preferred vendor driver for this config */
> > +		else if (bus_for_each_drv(&usb_bus_type, NULL, (void *) udev, prefer_vendor)) {
> > +			best = c;
> > +			break;
> > +		}  
> 
> How are prefer_vendor() and usb_driver_preferred() supposed to know 
> which configuration is being considered?

Currently they don't need to know, but this could be added by passing
a temporary struct with more stuff in place of udev.

Really, this whole usb_drv->preferred business could be a simple
boolean flag, if not for r8152 needing to issue control transfers to
the chip to find whether it supports at all.

It seems that ax88179_preferred() could simply always return true.

> (Also, is prefer_vendor() really needed?  Can't you just pass 
> usb_driver_preferred as the argument to bus_for_each_drv()?  Maybe after 
> changing the type of its second argument to void * instead of struct 
> usb_device *?)

I didn't like the idea of usb_driver_preferred() taking void *.
However, I could cast it to a function taking void * here in generic.c.

The wrapper would become truly necessary if we wanted to pass
config / intf / other stuff to usb_driver_preferred().

Regards,
Michal