[PATCH] USB: Only process ports with change events pending
This patch adds a bit-array to the hub driver's private data structure, used for storing the contents of the hub's interrupt status message. That message indicates which ports have events pending (and whether the hub itself has events pending). By only polling the status of the ports listed in the bit-array we can save a fair amount of overhead in hub communication. (The #error test added to hub.h is a little awkward, but it's purely precautionary -- it won't matter until someone decides to support hubs with more than 31 ports!) Also included in the patch, since this seemed the perfect opportunity for it, is Byron's suggestion for handling hub events in the order in which they were received. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
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