Re: [PATCHv5 2/3] USB: gadget: Use new composite features in somegadgets

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Jul 30 2010 - 17:27:04 EST


On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:57:35AM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
>
> >
> > We shouldn't be using _any_ netchip
> > ids anymore now that we
> > have our own vendor id assigned to us.
>
> That's too extreme; the original handful of
> NetChip IDs were (and are!!) correctly assigned,
> and there's no reason to change them. In fact,
> there's a lot of reason to continue using them
> while config files and drivers expect to see
> those specific IDs (as is reasonable). That's
> to avoid breaking working configs...

True, I was thinking that for the class-type devices, we could use the
linux foundation vid, as changing them shouldn't matter right?

Or does Windows really care about the vid/pid for a class device
somehow?

thanks,

greg k-h
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