From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261698AbULBSK6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:10:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261708AbULBSK4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:10:56 -0500 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.130]:26105 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261698AbULBSI4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:00:12 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Christoph Hellwig , Rogier Wolff , kuba@mareimbrium.org, 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: <20041202180012.GD7655@kroah.com> References: <20041202124831.GA31745@bitwizard.nl> <20041202133437.GA27994@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041202133437.GA27994@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:34:37PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. I agree, and this is what I have stated a number of times already. But it's going to take some driver core rework to get correct, and I'm finding less time than I expected in order to do that work... Hopefully soon... thanks, greg k-h