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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-12-18 21:54:49 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-12-18 21:54:49 +0100 |
commit | d110ec3a1e1f522e2e9dfceb9c36d6590c26d2d4 (patch) | |
tree | 86b2f8f1d22b74b05239525c55bd42e3db6afc03 /include/linux/usb/ch9.h | |
parent | 343e9099c8152daff20e10d6269edec21da44fc0 (diff) | |
parent | 55dac3a5553b13891f0ae4bbd11920619b5436d4 (diff) |
Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/usb/ch9.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/usb/ch9.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/usb/ch9.h b/include/linux/usb/ch9.h index 73a2f4eb1f7..9b42baed390 100644 --- a/include/linux/usb/ch9.h +++ b/include/linux/usb/ch9.h @@ -158,8 +158,12 @@ struct usb_ctrlrequest { * (rarely) accepted by SET_DESCRIPTOR. * * Note that all multi-byte values here are encoded in little endian - * byte order "on the wire". But when exposed through Linux-USB APIs, - * they've been converted to cpu byte order. + * byte order "on the wire". Within the kernel and when exposed + * through the Linux-USB APIs, they are not converted to cpu byte + * order; it is the responsibility of the client code to do this. + * The single exception is when device and configuration descriptors (but + * not other descriptors) are read from usbfs (i.e. /proc/bus/usb/BBB/DDD); + * in this case the fields are converted to host endianness by the kernel. */ /* |