From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
Cc: kuba@mareimbrium.org, greg@kroah.com, bryder@sgi.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, edwin@harddisk-recovery.nl
Subject: Re: FTDI SIO patch to allow custom vendor/product IDs.
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:34:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041202133437.GA27994@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041202124831.GA31745@bitwizard.nl>
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:48:31PM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote:
>
> To prevent XP from hijacking devices that require a different driver,
> some people flash a different Vendor/Product ID into their FTDI based
> device.
>
> Also some "new" devices may come out which are perfectly valid to be
> driven by the ftdi_sio driver, but happen to have a vendor/product
> id which is not (yet) included in the driver. I've built a patch
> that allows you to tell the driver "vendor=... product=...." to
> make it accept such devices.
>
> Does this patch make sense?
I think it would be much better to have something like the dynamic PCI IDs
support to USB aswell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-02 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-02 12:48 FTDI SIO patch to allow custom vendor/product IDs Rogier Wolff
2004-12-02 13:34 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-12-02 18:00 ` Greg KH
2004-12-02 13:57 ` Jan Dittmer
2004-12-02 14:02 ` Jan Dittmer
2004-12-02 18:00 ` Greg KH
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