Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 2015 09:47:23 +0200 | From | Johan Hovold <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation usb serial: fixed how to provide vendor and product id |
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:15:20PM +0200, Marek Belisko wrote: > From: "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> > > While trying to test a Cinterion GSM/GPS/3G module I had reconfigured > the USB interface by mistake and therefore needed to run a different > USB driver than CDC-ACM. It turned out that I need the "usbserial" driver. > > This file is an official description how to use it: Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt > > But it is outdated. The parameters vendor= and product= are only available > if compiled as a kernel module and have been superseded by a /sys interface. > > Here was the solution: > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=175499 > > insmod usbserial vendor=0x#### product=0x#### > > becomes (first #### is vendor, second is product) > > modprobe usbserial > echo #### #### >/sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/generic/new_id > > This patch changes the documentation file to describe the modern variant. > Please note that the old one still works (if compiled as module). > > Signed-off-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> > Signed-off-by: Marek Belisko <marek@goldelico.com> > --- > > - fixed 2 sentences suggested by Johan Hovold
Thanks for fixing this. Looks good now.
Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Johan
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