Added check for USB alternate settings

[jpwidera]

Quick and dirty fix #535

I'm not sure but I think, that the 072f:2200-device does not support alernative usb modes:

Bus 001 Device 013: ID 072f:2200 Advanced Card Systems, Ltd ACR122U:

# lsusb -v -s 001:013 | grep bAlter
     bAlternateSetting       0

Disabling allows to read and write:

./nfc-mfclassic r u a test.mfd
./nfc-mfclassic w u a test.mfd

I'm not sure. But does any of these acr122-devices has an alternative usb mode?

[jpwidera]

This is already recognized by @melchips in #542 (comment)

[thekix]

I provided another patch about the same problem (#563). IMO there are two different ACR122 models, the old, with alternate support (at least, reply the usb call) and the new without support (timeout in the usb call).

This patch is nice, because checks the compatibility with alternate settings. My patch is less conservative, and removes the call to set alternate settings.

The question is: do we need with this device (old and new) the usage of set alternate settings? If the answer is "no", we can remove all these lines. If we want to be more conservative, then this patch is preferred.

I tested both devices with my patch, and they works fine. IMO, I prefer delete all these lines, less code is better, and then if in the future there are some trouble, we can undo the patch and apply this, but is only my opinion.

[jpwidera]

To be honest: It is not completly clear to me, what the side-effects of the alternate settings is.
What happens, if a device supporting alternate settings is in mode x and the libnfc requires mode 0?

If there is no side-effect, I'm completely on your side - less code less problems (:

[thekix]

I tried to find more info about alternate devices, and I didn't find info about it. For this reason I did this patch.

After testing (see #564) reading, writing and Writing (sector 0) with the patch provided (#563) and with new and the old devices, it works fine. IMO, the patch removing the alternate calls is better, because removes code not needed by these devices.

[fxcoudert]

I can confirm that this patch fixes issues on my reader.

1 NFC device(s) found:
- ACS / ACR122U PICC Interface:
    acr122_usb:020:002

        ACR122U PICC Interface:

          Product ID: 0x2200
          Vendor ID: 0x072f
          Version: 2.14
          Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
          Manufacturer: ACS
          Location ID: 0x14400000 / 2
          Current Available (mA): 500
          Current Required (mA): 200
          Extra Operating Current (mA): 0

[ilteen]

For me „nfc-list“ still results in „Unable to set alternate setting on USB interface“, however when running „/utils/nfc-list“ in my libnfc folder cloned from github it works...I did sudo make uninstall beforehand, cloned libnfc again and deleted these lines as described, compiling then and finally running sudo make install.
It is as if my changes are ignored but i don’t understand why.
Can anyone help me please?