Re: RFC: Platform data for onboard USB assets

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Mar 17 2011 - 18:20:28 EST


On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:11:36PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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.

{sigh}

It's as if BIOS programmers are now laying out board designs...
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