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| author | David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> | 2009-01-02 13:17:13 +0000 |
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| committer | David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> | 2009-01-02 13:17:13 +0000 |
| commit | b21a207141d83a06abc5f492b80204602e02ca44 (patch) | |
| tree | f0152cde543008c72d7eb5c12c18095ad92785e6 /include/linux/usb | |
| parent | 3af373021fa32f8f787bfbdcc1a9277a287bde4e (diff) | |
| parent | b58602a4bac012b5f4fc12fe6b46ab237b610d5d (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into for-upstream
Conflicts:
drivers/uwb/wlp/eda.c
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/usb')
| -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. */ /* |