From 0846e7e9856c0928223447d9349a877202a63f24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Garrett Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:11:54 -0500 Subject: usb: Add support for indicating whether a port is removable Userspace may want to make policy decisions based on whether or not a given USB device is removable. Add a per-device member and support for exposing it in sysfs. Information sources to populate it will be added later. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/ABI') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb index b4f548792e32..7c22a532fdfb 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb @@ -182,3 +182,14 @@ Description: USB2 hardware LPM is enabled for the device. Developer can write y/Y/1 or n/N/0 to the file to enable/disable the feature. + +What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../removable +Date: February 2012 +Contact: Matthew Garrett +Description: + Some information about whether a given USB device is + physically fixed to the platform can be inferred from a + combination of hub decriptor bits and platform-specific data + such as ACPI. This file will read either "removable" or + "fixed" if the information is available, and "unknown" + otherwise. \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3