Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] USB: gadget: mass/file storage: set serial number

["Michał Nazarewicz" <m.nazarewicz@samsung.com>]

On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:20:11 +0200, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:

>> > Can it be made to do so only when the gadget
>> > hasn't been provided with one already?  Serial
>> > number module options are standard parts of the
>> > composite gadget framework...
>>
>> I don't see a way for the gadget to know whether user gave
>> the iSerialNumber
>> parameter (other then reading the iSerialNumber variable
>> but I consider that  ugly).
>
> Uglier still is the current patch overriding
> that explicitly-given parameter.

How does it override explicitly-given parameter?  I don't follow...

All it does is add a iSerialNumber.  Without this patch the
explicitly-given parameter won't even work:

	if (cdev->desc.iSerialNumber && iSerialNumber)
		string_override(composite->strings,
			cdev->desc.iSerialNumber, iSerialNumber);

Composite checks if iSerialNumber is allocated and overrides the
string only if it is.  Without my patch, the string ID is never
allocated.

Also, the overriding is performed *after* composite device's bind
callback is called so there is no way for the bind callback to
override explicitly-given parameter.

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