On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:02:24AM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > On Friday 25 January 2008, Greg KH wrote: > > 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, > > The ones NetChip gave me are allocated by me, and stored in > the usb.ids file. That's probably not the answer you're after > (and you'll have 2^12 times as many to worry about), but I > do think they should be listed that way.
In reading the USB-IF adopters agreement, NetChip could get in big trouble for giving you those ids, which is one reason I got the Linux Foundation to join the group. > > 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? > > Nah -- go for it! Ok, will do. 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
