Re: UPS USB serial device is not detected properly

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:48:23PM +0200, Hai Zaar wrote:
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> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Hai Zaar <haizaar@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
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> >> Ah, the hid driver is binding to the device.  You need to add a quirk to
> >> it to prevent this from happening, I don't know why no one has reported
> >> this before.
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> >> If you need help generating such a patch, let us know.
> > I definitely need a help on this and I'll be glad to get some.
> Temporary blacklisting usbhid and reloading usbserial and friends did
> the trick, but this is impractical solution.
> Can anyone provide me a tip how to fix usbhid?

Add it to the big array called hid_ignore_list[] in the file,
drivers/hid/hid-core.c in the kernel source tree.

thanks,

greg k-h