Re: FTDI SIO patch to allow custom vendor/product IDs.

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:48:31PM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> 
> To prevent XP from hijacking devices that require a different driver,
> some people flash a different Vendor/Product ID into their FTDI based
> device. 
> 
> Also some "new" devices may come out which are perfectly valid to be
> driven by the ftdi_sio driver, but happen to have a vendor/product
> id which is not (yet) included in the driver.  I've built a patch
> that allows you to tell the driver "vendor=... product=...." to 
> make it accept such devices.
> 
> Does this patch make sense?
> 
> I've built this patch for 2.4.28, but I'll port it for inclusion into
> 2.6 if people agree that this is useful.

Looks fine to me for 2.4, care to make a 2.6 patch too?

thanks,

greg k-h
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