Am Freitag, 25. Januar 2008 23:28:09 schrieb Greg KH:
> 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 :)
"should" doesn't mean do. You want to make a change visible to user space.
That needs a reason beyond coolness.
Regards
Oliver
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