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From: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
	Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>, Simon Cao <caobosimon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 3/7] libxl: add pvusb API
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:45:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFLBxZa=dLBq=TSheKWR7FWshRwoftRYfr6ke5GzVtDvRZdM_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5580079D.6070007@suse.com>

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> wrote:
>>> qemu does support specifying a USB device via <vendorId>:<productId>,
>>> which is stable even across reboots, but unfortunately it isn't
>>> guaranteed to be unique (you can have plugged in two devices of the
>>> same type).
>>
>>
>> Indeed.  That would also be a thing we should allow people to do.
>>
>> AIUI some devices have serial numbers, which means you can distinguish
>> them ?
>
>
> Yes, they have. The question is whether those are different on multiple
> instances? With "lsusb" I've found a device with serial number
> 0123456789ABCD. Do you really believe I'm just lucky owning the one with
> such a nice serial number? ;-)

So it sounds like we're converging on "Allow multiple ways to specify
the interface", with at least the following fields:
- bus (int - 1,2,3, &c)
- port (string - 2.1.3, &c)
- address/devnum (int)
- vendorid (uint16_t)
- deviceid (uint16_t)

That solves the basic problem, because then the missing information
needed by the various paths can be looked up and added to the device
struct as needed.

 -George

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-16 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-10  3:20 [PATCH V4 0/7] xen pvusb toolstack work Chunyan Liu
2015-06-10  3:20 ` [PATCH V4 1/7] libxl: export some functions for pvusb use Chunyan Liu
2015-06-11 16:08   ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-11 16:28     ` Wei Liu
2015-06-12 15:14       ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-10  3:20 ` [PATCH V4 2/7] libxl_read_file_contents: add new entry to read sysfs file Chunyan Liu
2015-06-11 16:16   ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-12  7:00     ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-12 15:11       ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-10  3:20 ` [PATCH V4 3/7] libxl: add pvusb API Chunyan Liu
2015-06-11 15:00   ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-11 16:07     ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-11 16:42   ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-12  7:39     ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-12  8:06       ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-12 11:22       ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-15 14:17   ` George Dunlap
2015-06-15 14:25     ` Jürgen Groß
2015-06-15 14:34       ` George Dunlap
2015-06-15 18:26         ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 10:30           ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 10:51             ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 11:11               ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 11:19                 ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 11:23                   ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 11:44                     ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-17 11:24                       ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 11:50                         ` George Dunlap
2015-06-18 12:08                         ` George Dunlap
2015-06-18 13:03                           ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-22 13:29                           ` Proposed plan for libxl USB interface (was Re: [PATCH V4 3/7] libxl: add pvusb API) George Dunlap
2015-06-22 14:14                             ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-22 14:22                             ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-23  2:42                             ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-23  2:43                             ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-23  2:44                             ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-16 10:41     ` [PATCH V4 3/7] libxl: add pvusb API Ian Jackson
2015-06-16 10:56       ` Jürgen Groß
2015-06-16 11:03         ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 11:10         ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-16 11:25           ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 11:45             ` George Dunlap [this message]
2015-06-16 12:02               ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-16 13:19                 ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 13:32                   ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 13:37                   ` [PATCH V4 3/7] libxl: add pvusb API [and 1 more messages] Ian Jackson
2015-06-16 14:41                     ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 15:58                       ` Sander Eikelenboom
2015-06-16 15:59                       ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-16 16:34                         ` George Dunlap
2015-06-17  3:59                           ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-17 10:27                             ` George Dunlap
2015-06-18  6:24                               ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-16 11:45             ` [PATCH V4 3/7] libxl: add pvusb API Ian Jackson
2015-06-16 13:06               ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 13:09                 ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 13:23                   ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 13:29                     ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 13:49                       ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 14:06                         ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 14:20                           ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 14:37                             ` George Dunlap
2015-06-17 11:34                             ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-17 11:40                               ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-18  6:20                               ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-18  7:02                                 ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-18  8:50                                   ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 13:02                                     ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-16 15:38             ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 11:01       ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 11:12         ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-16 11:21           ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 16:32             ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-16 16:39               ` George Dunlap
2015-06-16 16:51                 ` Ross Philipson
2015-06-17  4:03                   ` Jürgen Groß
2015-06-17 13:48                     ` Ross Philipson
2015-06-15 17:47   ` George Dunlap
2015-06-23 10:18     ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-23 11:29       ` George Dunlap
2015-06-24  2:26         ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-10  3:20 ` [PATCH V4 4/7] libxl: add libxl_device_usb_assignable_list API Chunyan Liu
2015-06-10  3:20 ` [PATCH V4 5/7] xl: add pvusb commands Chunyan Liu
2015-06-12  7:37   ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-12  8:03     ` Chun Yan Liu
2015-06-12  8:22       ` Juergen Gross
2015-06-10  3:20 ` [PATCH V4 6/7] xl: add usb-assignable-list command Chunyan Liu
2015-06-10  3:20 ` [PATCH V4 7/7] domcreate: support pvusb in configuration file Chunyan Liu

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