Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: net2280: Remove pci_class from PCI_TABLE

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 03:00:29PM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> Defining the vendor and the product id should be enough to discriminate
> the device.
> 
> The reason for this patch is that there is a missmatch betweed the
> modalias showed by sysfs and the modalias generated by file2alias.
> 
> One expects the programming interface in uppercase and the other
> generates it in lowercase.

I don't understand, what is wrong here?  Who does it in uppercase and
who in lower?  And does it matter?  It's just a numeric value that
should not be used as a string compare.

> This means that some implementations modprobe will fail to load the
> driver.

What implementations fail to work?  Shouldn't we fix the root of the
problem and not just patch up all drivers to display incorrect data?

And I mean incorrect, as you are changing the values here from being
very specific, to being much broader.

thanks,

greg k-h