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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Valentina Manea <valentina.manea.m@gmail.com>
Cc: anthony.foiani@gmail.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	navinp@cdac.in, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	ly80toro@cip.cs.fau.de, josh@joshtriplett.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, firefly@lists.rosedu.org,
	tulinizer@gmail.com, stern@rowland.harvard.edu,
	yacine.belkadi.1@gmail.com, ke42caxa@cip.cs.fau.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: usbip: convert usbip-host driver to usb_device_driver
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:09:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140123190944.GA11639@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1390502206-28684-1-git-send-email-valentina.manea.m@gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 08:36:46PM +0200, Valentina Manea wrote:
> This driver was previously an interface driver. Since USB/IP
> exports a whole device, not just an interface, it would make
> sense to be a device driver.
> 
> This patch also modifies the way userspace sees and uses a
> shared device - dealing with interfaces is no longer required.

In what way is this modified?  What is now different?

> --- a/drivers/usb/core/generic.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/core/generic.c
> @@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ int usb_choose_configuration(struct usb_device *udev)
>  	}
>  	return i;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(usb_choose_configuration);
>  
>  static int generic_probe(struct usb_device *udev)
>  {
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/message.c b/drivers/usb/core/message.c
> index bb31597..fb0a555 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/core/message.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/core/message.c
> @@ -1921,6 +1921,7 @@ free_interfaces:
>  	usb_autosuspend_device(dev);
>  	return 0;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(usb_set_configuration);
>  
>  static LIST_HEAD(set_config_list);
>  static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(set_config_lock);

Please make both of these EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), like the rest of the USB
symbols are.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-23 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-23 18:36 [PATCH] staging: usbip: convert usbip-host driver to usb_device_driver Valentina Manea
2014-01-23 19:09 ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-01-23 19:37   ` Valentina Manea
2014-01-23 19:45     ` Greg KH
2014-01-23 20:06     ` Alan Stern
2014-01-23 21:10       ` Valentina Manea
2014-01-23 19:58 ` [PATCH v2] " Valentina Manea
2014-01-23 21:12 ` [PATCH v3] " Valentina Manea

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