Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of driver probing

From	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of driver probing
Date	2017-01-04 21:50 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 02:01:00PM -0600, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > You know the device type and vendor/product id before you authorize it,
> > you should be able to do this type of detection otherwise it seems
> > pretty pointless :)
> 
> You know the vendor and product ID, which doesn't tell you whether one
> of the endpoints is a network device or a keyboard. You need to know
> that.

Are you sure you don't have the configuration information as well?  That
should tell you...

And for network devices, they are almost all just vendor/product ids,
not many use the class protocol.

thanks,

greg k-h

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[PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of  driver probing Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-01-04 00:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of  driver probing "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2017-01-04 00:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of  driver probing Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-01-04 00:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of  driver probing "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2017-01-04 02:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of  driver probing Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-01-04 10:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of  driver probing Matthew Garrett <mjg59@coreos.com> - 2017-01-04 19:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of  driver probing Matthew Garrett <mjg59@coreos.com> - 2017-01-04 19:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of  driver probing Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-01-04 20:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of  driver probing Matthew Garrett <mjg59@coreos.com> - 2017-01-04 21:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of  driver probing Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-01-04 21:50 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of  driver probing Matthew Garrett <mjg59@coreos.com> - 2017-01-04 23:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of  driver probing Matthew Garrett <mjg59@coreos.com> - 2017-01-04 23:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of  driver probing Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-01-04 20:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of  driver probing Matthew Garrett <mjg59@coreos.com> - 2017-01-04 21:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of  driver probing Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com> - 2017-01-05 09:20 +0100

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