Querying USB device's bInterfaceNumber

[Adam Jackson]

On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 10:37 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 01:13:16PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 10:03 -0800, Ping wrote:
> > > I need a quick answer since searching through the X server code takes
> > > too long.  
> > > 
> > > Is there a way for me to get the bInterfaceNumber from a device HID
> > > Descriptor inside an xorg Input device driver?  I feel there should be
> > > an existing mechanism to fulfil this, maybe through an ioctl call?
> > > Can someone show me what parameter(s) I need to use if the ioctl is
> > > supported?
> > > 
> > > Please also reply to me if you know there is no existing way to get
> > > the bInterfaceNumber inside an xorg device driver so I will add my own
> > > workaround in the kernel driver.
> > 
> > X doesn't have any particular knowledge of USB internally, you'll need
> > to roll your own.
> 
> As X has knowledge of PCI internally, perhaps we should add some basic
> USB support as well to prevent people from having to add odd hacks to
> kernel drivers for stuff like this?

I'm more inclined to say that different interfaces on the same USB
device should be different event streams in /dev/input/event*.  But I'm
not completely sure what problem is being solved here; in particular, if
the different interfaces would affect the same state machine, then that
doesn't really work.

- ajax
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