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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt b/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt index 2917ce4ffdc..270481906dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt @@ -34,11 +34,12 @@ if usbmon is built into the kernel. Verify that bus sockets are present. # ls /sys/kernel/debug/usbmon -0s 0t 0u 1s 1t 1u 2s 2t 2u 3s 3t 3u 4s 4t 4u +0s 0u 1s 1t 1u 2s 2t 2u 3s 3t 3u 4s 4t 4u # -Now you can choose to either use the sockets numbered '0' (to capture packets on -all buses), and skip to step #3, or find the bus used by your device with step #2. +Now you can choose to either use the socket '0u' (to capture packets on all +buses), and skip to step #3, or find the bus used by your device with step #2. +This allows to filter away annoying devices that talk continuously. 2. Find which bus connects to the desired device @@ -99,8 +100,9 @@ on the event type, but there is a set of words, common for all types. Here is the list of words, from left to right: -- URB Tag. This is used to identify URBs is normally a kernel mode address - of the URB structure in hexadecimal. +- URB Tag. This is used to identify URBs, and is normally an in-kernel address + of the URB structure in hexadecimal, but can be a sequence number or any + other unique string, within reason. - Timestamp in microseconds, a decimal number. The timestamp's resolution depends on available clock, and so it can be much worse than a microsecond |