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If you deauthorize the r8152 device (by writing 0 to the "authorized"
field in sysfs) and then reauthorize it (by writing a 1) then it no
longer works. This is because when you do the above we lose the
special configuration that we set in rtl8152_cfgselector_probe().
Deauthorizing causes the config to be set to -1 and then reauthorizing
runs the default logic for choosing the best config.

I made an attempt to fix it so that the config is kept across
deauthorizing / reauthorizing [1] but it was a bit ugly.

Let's instead use the new USB core feature to override
choose_configuration().

This patch relies upon the patches ("usb: core: Don't force USB
generic_subclass drivers to define probe()") and ("usb: core: Allow
subclassed USB drivers to override usb_choose_configuration()")

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231130154337.1.Ie00e07f07f87149c9ce0b27ae4e26991d307e14b@changeid

Fixes: ec51fbd1

 ("r8152: add USB device driver for config selection")
Suggested-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201102946.v2.3.Ie00e07f07f87149c9ce0b27ae4e26991d307e14b@changeid

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>