From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751349AbVHVWTi (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:19:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751337AbVHVWTh (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:19:37 -0400 Received: from zeus1.kernel.org ([204.152.191.4]:8328 "EHLO zeus1.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751356AbVHVWT1 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:19:27 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cqNemvBzlOewSeV8p4wqRdQAi5cFGTjP5eq7NkOaKcuunKduqp91yeWNP49+hjkDMQ/G/p02bcjRcoQdTZsBfS0qJiMYgzMNA+4ZSpa21TvScyqHjiTEY6F0zHDY7YOKim63M4fAfOFpSaLZdrjYfEsLBYuCrbxQWCv5NJMhGgA= Message-ID: <9a874849050822030532a1fb8e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:05:32 +0200 From: Jesper Juhl To: Vojtech Pavlik , Eric Piel Subject: Re: VIA USB Controller - (Wrong ID) ?? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050821205027.GA9146@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <9a8748490508191153512e2db4@mail.gmail.com> <43067527.1000708@tremplin-utc.net> <20050821205027.GA9146@ucw.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 8/21/05, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 02:11:19AM +0200, Eric Piel wrote: > > Hello, > > > > 19.08.2005 20:53, Jesper Juhl wrote/a écrit: > > >I've just noticed that my USB controller(s) show up as having "Wrong > > >ID" and now I'm wondering what exactely that means and what I can do > > >about it (kernel 2.6.13-rc6-mm1 in case it matters). > > > > > >Is it a wrong PCI ID? If so, how's the controller recognized at all? > > > > > >I stopped by http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/iii// which had an entry saying : > > > > > >0925 VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) > > > Wrong ID used in subsystem ID of VIA USB controllers. > > > > > I've never heard of this before. However, cheking the list shows that > > every vendor which has a "Wrong ID" entry also a normal one. So my guess > > is that "wrong ID" means that somewhere in the process of putting the > > PCI ID (during the design of the device) someone mistook which ID to > > put. So this would mean that your device doesn't have the official ID of > > VIA, but it uses an unofficial one (famous enough to be listed though). > > Nothing to worry about. > > > > : > > >00:04.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 > > >controller] (rev 16) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) > > > Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller > > > > > > > >Can anyone explain this to me? The controllers are working just > > >fine, so it's not too important, I'm just a currious nature :) > > > > Well, as I said before, it's just pure guess, but it's cool to invent > > stories ;-) > > It's a correct guess, though. They mixed up the vendor and device IDs in > the subsystem ID of their USB controllers. > Thank you for the explanation guys. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html