Re: [PATCH] Documentation: usb: serial: fixed how to provide vendor and product id

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 09:53:34PM +0100, Marek Belisko wrote:
> From: "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com>
> 
> While trying to test the Pyra GSM/GPS/3G module I had reconfigured
> the USB interface by mistake and therefore needed to run a different
> USB driver than CSC-ACM. It turned out that I need the "usbserial" driver.
> 
> This file is an official description how to use it:
> Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt
> 
> But it is outdated. The parameters vendor= and product= are no longer
> available since ca. 3.12 which means that documentation is lagging behind
> quite some time.
> 
> Here was the solution:
> 
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=175499
> 
>   insmod usbserial vendor=0x#### product=0x####
> 
> becomes (first #### is vendor, second is product)
> 
>   modprobe usbserial
>   echo #### #### >/sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/generic/new_id
> 
> This patch changes the documentation file as needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com>

You are forwarding on a patch from someone else, why didn't you also
sign-off on it?  Do you not agree with it?

thanks,

greg k-h