From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261609AbULBNeo (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:34:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261616AbULBNen (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:34:43 -0500 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:20119 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261609AbULBNem (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:34:42 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:34:37 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Rogier Wolff 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. Message-ID: <20041202133437.GA27994@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Rogier Wolff , kuba@mareimbrium.org, greg@kroah.com, bryder@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, edwin@harddisk-recovery.nl References: <20041202124831.GA31745@bitwizard.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041202124831.GA31745@bitwizard.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.