From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261689AbULBSKb (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:10:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261708AbULBSKa (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:10:30 -0500 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.132]:957 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261702AbULBSI5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:08:57 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:00:53 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Rogier Wolff Cc: 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: <20041202180053.GE7655@kroah.com> 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/1.5.6i 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've built this patch for 2.4.28, but I'll port it for inclusion into > 2.6 if people agree that this is useful. Looks fine to me for 2.4, care to make a 2.6 patch too? thanks, greg k-h