Re: RFC: Platform data for onboard USB assets

[Andy Green]

On 03/18/2011 10:37 PM, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 23:22 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> > Is there actually a need for sort of not platform_data but universal
> > vid_pid_specific_usb_device_option_data coming from the board
> > definition
> > file or bootloader for *pluggable* usb devices?  udev seems to be
> > well
> > established doing that already in a generic, not-platform-specific
> > way
> > that can go in all distros and so on nicely.  Maybe this is just my
> > impoverished imagination and people do want, say, some kinds of USB
> > mice
> > to operate at higher DPI or whatever when plugged in a specific board
> > because it is that board.
>
> Except that vid/pid are the -WRONG- way to do that. Your device is
> on-board, the proper way to identify it uniquely is it's topological
> location, ie path of HW port numbers.

Thanks Ben.

I'll go change that VID/PID stuff in my patches right away.

-Andy
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