[PATCH] USB physical paths id
This provides something that gets discussed regularly: stable device IDs. Straightforward; most of it was already present: - Moves "bus_name" out of HCD framework into usb_bus. This accounts for _by far the bulk_ of this patch, since every use of that original field needed to change. - Make Vojtech's usb_make_path() use bus_name instead of unstable bus numbers ... and usb_device->devpath instead of recomputing that same info. Combine two stable IDs, and the result is still stable. And since both are precomputed, usb_make_path() turns into only an error check wrapped around snprintf() ... so I inlined it. - Minor tweak to usb_device->devpath construction. It still uses "/" for the root hub (better suggestions?) but Vojtech wanted "." for separators, so I changed that. - The older HCDs (uhci.c etc) initialize usb_bus.bus_name, as well as the sharable HCD framework - HCD framework no longer uses "bus" member. These IDs are currently exposed in "input" hotplugging, and my next patch addresses that for USB network devices.
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