From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dunlap, Randy" Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:37:55 +0000 Subject: RE: Bug in USB Generic Serial driver Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com] > > Hi all, > > It seems that the last round of hotplug changes broke a few > more things. > If you load (or compile in) the USB Generic Serial driver, it will > _always_ grab any device that it is offered, if the user does not > specify a product and vendor id for it on the 'insmod' command line. > ... > > I thought that the usb scanner driver would also have this > problem, but > it looks like the ability to specify the vendor and product ids as a > module load parameter have been removed. No, it's still there, partly in scanner.h, so it may also have this problem. I haven't tried it. > And I also don't like the ordering specificness of the new USB_DEVICE > macro, and liked the named initializers better, but can't think of a > better way to do it right this second. > > Comments? > > Thanks Randy, for pointing this problem out to me. I'm glad that you found the cause so quickly. ~Randy _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel