Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:28:28 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] usb: add sysfs configuration interface for CP2101 |
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:07:41AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Dirk Eibach wrote: > > > From: Dirk Eibach <eibach@gdsys.de> > > > > The usb configuration data for the Silabs CP2101 usb to uart bridge > > controller can be customized: > > - Vendor ID > > - Product ID > > - Power Descriptor > > - Release Number > > - Serial Number > > - Product Description String > > > > Silabs provides a windows-only tool to do that. > > Since we use linux-only machines in our production-environment, we have no > > proper way to customize the chips for our purpose. > > So I added sysfs configuration support to the linux driver. > > Surely this sort of thing is better done in userspace, with libusb.
I agree, any reason why you have not tried that? Adding files like "vendor_id" to an interface directory in sysfs could cause a lot of people to get very confused, very quickly :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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