On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 05:54:33PM -0600, Kevin K wrote: > I use an USB device that looks like a serial port to the kernel. However, > since the Device ID is unknown, I have to either modprobe usbserial with > the vendor/id codes as parameters, or modify generic.c so it knows to > handle the device. I have been going with the code modification since > there are 2 versions of this device with different numbers, and you can > only do 1 on the command line. > > What is the "right" way to see if it can be pushed into mainline support? > It seems overkill to write another driver that essentially wraps around > generic.c.
No it isn't overkill, we have a few drivers like this. What type of USB serial chip is this device? Perhaps we should just add the device ids to an existing driver? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
