On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:44:32PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Freitag, 25. Januar 2008 17:58:56 schrieben Sie: > > Right now we use a "fake" vendor and product id for root hubs in the > > kernel. However, I'm happy to announce that the Linux Foundation has > > joined the USB-IF and gotten an "official" usb vendor id assigned to it. > > > > I'm still working on setting up the infrastructure for how to assign > > product ids out of this numberspace, but someone mentioned the other day > > that we should probably use the first id for our root hubs within the > > kernel. > > > > Does anyone have an objection to me making that change? > > What's the benefit? You'll break all scripts that look for 0:0 to identify > a root hub.
We have scripts that do that? Where? You should be looking at the bus id and level and other stuff for that I would hope, not the vendor and product id. At least that's the way the scripts I've written over the years do it :) thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
