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| author |   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-11-26 22:11:55 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-02-01 14:34:52 -0800 |
| commit | f2a383e4de50ad9c03676e57703a97d081798e55 (patch) | |
| tree | c755110f43b899ba02a554004de87863b1277fab /drivers/usb/core/Kconfig | |
| parent | USB: dummy_hcd: don't register drivers on the platform bus (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-f2a383e4de50ad9c03676e57703a97d081798e55.tar.xz linux-dev-f2a383e4de50ad9c03676e57703a97d081798e55.zip | |
USB: always announce a device has been added to the system
Distros (like SuSE) want to know this information, to make it easier
to handle support issues. Might as well let everyone benefit from this.
This is also enabled whenever CONFIG_USB_DEBUG is enabled, to help with
debugging.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb/core/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/usb/core/Kconfig | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig index 97b09f282705..5c33cdb9cac7 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig @@ -9,6 +9,21 @@ config USB_DEBUG of debug messages to the system log. Select this if you are having a problem with USB support and want to see more of what is going on. +config USB_ANNOUNCE_NEW_DEVICES + bool "USB announce new devices" + depends on USB + default N + help + Say Y here if you want the USB core to always announce the + idVendor, idProduct, Manufacturer, Product, and SerialNumber + strings for every new USB device to the syslog. This option is + usually used by distro vendors to help with debugging and to + let users know what specific device was added to the machine + in what location. + + If you do not want this kind of information sent to the system + log, or have any doubts about this, say N here. + comment "Miscellaneous USB options" depends on USB |