usbdevfs: Add a USBDEVFS_GET_CAPABILITIES ioctl

There are a few (new) usbdevfs capabilities which an application cannot
discover in any other way then checking the kernel version. There are 3
problems with this:
1) It is just not very pretty.
2) Given the tendency of enterprise distros to backport stuff it is not
reliable.
3) As discussed in length on the mailinglist, USBDEVFS_URB_BULK_CONTINUATION
does not work as it should when combined with USBDEVFS_URB_SHORT_NOT_OK
(which is its intended use) on devices attached to an XHCI controller.
So the availability of these features can be host controller dependent,
making depending on them based on the kernel version not a good idea.

This patch besides adding the new ioctl also adds flags for the following
existing capabilities:

USBDEVFS_CAP_ZERO_PACKET,        available since 2.6.31
USBDEVFS_CAP_BULK_CONTINUATION,  available since 2.6.32, except for XHCI
USBDEVFS_CAP_NO_PACKET_SIZE_LIM, available since 3.3

Note that this patch only does not advertise the USBDEVFS_URB_BULK_CONTINUATION
cap for XHCI controllers, bulk transfers with this flag set will still be
accepted when submitted to XHCI controllers.

Returning -EINVAL for them would break existing apps, and in most cases the
troublesome scenario wrt USBDEVFS_URB_SHORT_NOT_OK urbs on XHCI controllers
will never get hit, so this would break working use cases.

The disadvantage of not returning -EINVAL is that cases were it is causing
real trouble may go undetected / the cause of the trouble may be unclear,
but this is the best we can do.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/usbdevice_fs.h b/include/linux/usbdevice_fs.h
index 15591d2ea400..07b2ceaaad70 100644
--- a/include/linux/usbdevice_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/usbdevice_fs.h
@@ -125,6 +125,11 @@ struct usbdevfs_hub_portinfo {
         char port [127];        /* e.g. port 3 connects to device 27 */
 };
 
+/* Device capability flags */
+#define USBDEVFS_CAP_ZERO_PACKET                0x01
+#define USBDEVFS_CAP_BULK_CONTINUATION          0x02
+#define USBDEVFS_CAP_NO_PACKET_SIZE_LIM         0x04
+
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
 #include <linux/compat.h>
@@ -204,4 +209,6 @@ struct usbdevfs_ioctl32 {
 #define USBDEVFS_CONNECT           _IO('U', 23)
 #define USBDEVFS_CLAIM_PORT        _IOR('U', 24, unsigned int)
 #define USBDEVFS_RELEASE_PORT      _IOR('U', 25, unsigned int)
+#define USBDEVFS_GET_CAPABILITIES  _IOR('U', 26, __u32)
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_USBDEVICE_FS_H */