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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/usb/ch9.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/usb/ch9.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/usb/ch9.h b/include/linux/usb/ch9.h index 73a2f4eb1f7..9b42baed390 100644 --- a/include/linux/usb/ch9.h +++ b/include/linux/usb/ch9.h @@ -158,8 +158,12 @@ struct usb_ctrlrequest { * (rarely) accepted by SET_DESCRIPTOR. * * Note that all multi-byte values here are encoded in little endian - * byte order "on the wire". But when exposed through Linux-USB APIs, - * they've been converted to cpu byte order. + * byte order "on the wire". Within the kernel and when exposed + * through the Linux-USB APIs, they are not converted to cpu byte + * order; it is the responsibility of the client code to do this. + * The single exception is when device and configuration descriptors (but + * not other descriptors) are read from usbfs (i.e. /proc/bus/usb/BBB/DDD); + * in this case the fields are converted to host endianness by the kernel. */ /* |