Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:03:10 +0200 | From | Johan Hovold <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation usb serial: fixed how to provide vendor and product id |
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 01:57:05PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> writes: > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:15:20PM +0200, Marek Belisko wrote: > >> From: "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> > >> > >> The parameters vendor= and product= are only available > >> if compiled as a kernel module > > Really? I believe you should be able to do > > usbserial.vendor=vid usbserial.product=pid > > on the command line if usbserial is built-in. Not that I recommend doing > that. But it should work.
You're right, the commit message is a little misleading, but the updated documentation is correct. The current text does not mention the option to pass module parameters on the kernel command line explicitly either.
Johan
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