Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:00:12 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: FTDI SIO patch to allow custom vendor/product IDs. |
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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,
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