From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Nils Radtke <Nils.Radtke@Think-Future.de>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.33.4 PATCH] V4L/uvcvideo: Add support for Suyin Corp. Lenovo Webcam
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:04:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100626170417.GB1135@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100626103615.GE8384@localhost>
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 12:36:15PM +0200, Nils Radtke wrote:
> Isn't the vendor/product ID a point of reference that tells the kernel which module
> to load when supported hw is found? That was the idea behind adding the ID and
> submitting the patch.
No, it also triggers off of the class information of the device, which
your device says it supports. If we had to add every single unique
device id for usb keyboards, that would be a mess :)
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-26 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-23 9:23 [2.6.33.4 PATCH] V4L/uvcvideo: Add support for Suyin Corp. Lenovo Webcam Nils Radtke
2010-06-23 12:45 ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-06-24 18:19 ` Nils Radtke
2010-06-25 7:29 ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-06-26 10:36 ` Nils Radtke
2010-06-26 17:04 ` Greg KH [this message]
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