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SubjectRe: FTDI SIO patch to allow custom vendor/product IDs.
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:34:37PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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 think it would be much better to have something like the dynamic PCI IDs
> support to USB aswell.

I agree, and this is what I have stated a number of times already. But
it's going to take some driver core rework to get correct, and I'm
finding less time than I expected in order to do that work...

Hopefully soon...

thanks,

greg k-h
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