On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote: > 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.
There was a reason. Some device was using ID 0, and Greg wanted to avoid a clash. Alan Stern - 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
