USB: add a blacklist for devices that can't handle some things we throw at them.

This adds a blacklist to the USB core to handle some autosuspend and
string issues that devices have.

Originally written by Oliver, but hacked up a lot by Greg.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/usb.h b/include/linux/usb.h
index a8e8d1ecebb1..37e522eba47f 100644
--- a/include/linux/usb.h
+++ b/include/linux/usb.h
@@ -388,6 +388,7 @@ struct usb_device {
         struct usb_device *children[USB_MAXCHILDREN];
 
         int pm_usage_cnt;               /* usage counter for autosuspend */
+        u32 quirks;                     /* quirks of the whole device */
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM
         struct delayed_work autosuspend; /* for delayed autosuspends */
         struct mutex pm_mutex;          /* protects PM operations */
diff --git a/include/linux/usb/quirks.h b/include/linux/usb/quirks.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6bac8faacbc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/usb/quirks.h
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+/*
+ * This file holds the definitions of quirks found in USB devices.
+ * Only quirks that affect the whole device, not an interface,
+ * belong here.
+ */
+
+/* device must not be autosuspended */
+#define USB_QUIRK_NO_AUTOSUSPEND        0x00000001
+
+/* string descriptors must not be fetched using a 255-byte read */
+#define USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255      0x00000002