Re: RFC: Platform data for onboard USB assets

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Mar 17 2011 - 18:11:55 EST


On Thursday 17 March 2011 21:26:14 Greg KH wrote:
> > It's going to be an off the shelf USB ethernet controller. I'd be
> > astonished if the board-configurable device IDs weren't set from the
> > same SEPROM that the MAC address is so it'd just show up as a generic
> > chip of whatever kind.
>
> Huh? All USB controllers you buy have the ability to set the vendor and
> product id, so you should always be able to key off of that.
>
> Isn't that the case here?

The same EEPROM that is missing here carries both the MAC address and
the vendor/product ID overrides.

Arnd
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