Re: [PATCH] Documentation: usb: serial: fixed how to provide vendor and product id

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Mar 26 2015 - 05:53:47 EST


On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 09:53:34PM +0100, Marek Belisko wrote:
> From: "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> While trying to test the Pyra GSM/GPS/3G module I had reconfigured
> the USB interface by mistake and therefore needed to run a different
> USB driver than CSC-ACM. It turned out that I need the "usbserial" driver.
>
> This file is an official description how to use it:
> Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt
>
> But it is outdated. The parameters vendor= and product= are no longer
> available since ca. 3.12 which means that documentation is lagging behind
> quite some time.
>
> Here was the solution:
>
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=175499
>
> insmod usbserial vendor=0x#### product=0x####
>
> becomes (first #### is vendor, second is product)
>
> modprobe usbserial
> echo #### #### >/sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/generic/new_id
>
> This patch changes the documentation file as needed.
>
> Signed-off-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

You are forwarding on a patch from someone else, why didn't you also
sign-off on it? Do you not agree with it?

thanks,

greg k-h
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