Re: USB disconnect, address 6

["J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org> wrote:
> Hi
>
> 2009/4/6 Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>:
>> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:11:55AM +0200, Jon Grant wrote:
> [..]
>>> The idea was that the disconnect could give more information.
>>> Otherwise it's necessary to go hunting back up the log to track down
>>> which USB device was the one disconnected (which works fine, but isn't
>>> ideal for time consumed doing this regularly).
>>
>> As you yanked the device out, don't you know which one it was?
>
> I do get devices disappear without me disconnecting them, various
> different PCs, and laptops.
>
> [..]
>>> Apr  5 18:56:58 data-laptop kernel: usb 5-1: USB disconnect, address 6
>>> (Samsung  Mighty Drive)
>>>
>>> Would this not be clearer?
>>
>> That might be nice, but note that the kernel doesn't even know the
>> strings after a device is gone, as it had to read them from the device
>> :)
>
> Yeah, would need to cache the names, perhaps you don't want to bloat
> the kernel that way.
>
>> Also, lots of devices don't have strings describing them, and some of
>> them are just flat out wrong.  And, if you have multiple devices of the
>> same type, it wouldn't really help out any either.
>
> Well personally I would rather at least know the class of the device
> which went, and would put up with incorrect info in preference to no
> info.

You could perhaps write a script that could look through the logs and
infer which device it was without touching the kernel at all.

>
>> So it would be a bit difficult to do this, sorry.
>
> Thanks anyway for considering it.
>
> Best regards, Jon
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