Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of driver probing

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 02:01:00PM -0600, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > You know the device type and vendor/product id before you authorize it,
> > you should be able to do this type of detection otherwise it seems
> > pretty pointless :)
> 
> You know the vendor and product ID, which doesn't tell you whether one
> of the endpoints is a network device or a keyboard. You need to know
> that.

Are you sure you don't have the configuration information as well?  That
should tell you...

And for network devices, they are almost all just vendor/product ids,
not many use the class protocol.

thanks,

greg k-h