Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2012-04-05 Thread Arthur Magill
Hi Samuel, Can brltty be convinced not to grab this connection? It could, but we don't want to, as it would break brltty for people who use the braille devices with chips using that ID, making the computer completely unusable for them, really not a good thing. True. But as it stands, it make

Bug#667616: brltty greedily grabs serial ports, ftdi_sio loses connection

2012-04-05 Thread Arthur Magill
Package: brltty Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I discovered this bug when connecting a Prologix GPIB-USB device to my computer. Internally, the device uses the common FTDI USB-RS232 bridge. When I connect the device, brltty takes control of the serial port, forcing the ftdi_sio driver to dr