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USB: add usbfs ioctl to retrieve the connection speed
authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Mon, 5 Jun 2017 14:28:01 +0000 (10:28 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:48:24 +0000 (10:48 +0200)
commitc01b244ad848ac7f0faa141182db80650a8a761a
tree5e6fbad5316fc3915609e013fc1875ff36af0d64
parent81606aea2303aa11867e97030299b1057091c2fd
USB: add usbfs ioctl to retrieve the connection speed

The usbfs interface does not provide any way for the user to learn the
speed at which a device is connected.  The current API includes a
USBDEVFS_CONNECTINFO ioctl, but all it provides is the device's
address and a one-bit value indicating whether the connection is low
speed.  That may have sufficed in the era of USB-1.1, but it isn't
good enough today.

This patch introduces a new ioctl, USBDEVFS_GET_SPEED, which returns a
numeric value indicating the speed of the connection: unknown, low,
full, high, wireless, super, or super-plus.

Similar information (not exactly the same) is available through sysfs,
but it seems reasonable to provide the actual value in usbfs.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Reported-by: Reinhard Huck <reinhard.huck@thesycon.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/usb/core/devio.c
include/uapi/linux/usbdevice_fs.h