Re: RFC/patch: authorizing (or not) devices to connect to the system

David Brownell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez wrote:
> 
> I've been toying with some patches to implement this concept also in a 
> generic way so that it could be used to implement a control mechanism
> for locking down systems (like for example, don't connect this kind of 
> hw, because policy won't allow it being configured).

This is much the same kind of notion as the USB-OTG "Targeted
Peripherals List" (TPL) -- a whitelist of devices a given product
vendor supports.  (Since, as we know, so many USB peripherals are
only marginally conformant, and OTG hosts might never get bugfixed
once they get shipped.  A whitelist can minimize support problems.)

I'd much rather see such white/black list mechanisms be uniform
across all of USB ... and I'm a bit puzzled what this would have
to do with wireless USB.

- Dave


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