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IS there a way to find out the Serial, firmware and OS version of a USB device?

I am using the kernel 5.15 based embedded device; have the requirement to figure out the unique field of a USB device, so that I can distinguish when the same vendor, model USB devices( VID,PID are same ) connected. I am heavily depended on the Serial number of USB device, which will be unique between the USB devices of same type( same VID,PID). Having said that, know that I can read the device and interface descriptor of the USB device with udev daemon. However some of the USB devices like printer and scanners are not showing serial number ; it is empty. Also I am interested to collect the fi

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