On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:32:39AM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > Hi Johan, > > Am 30.03.2015 um 09:45 schrieb Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 02:37:57PM +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. > > > > CDC-ACM > > oh, thanks. There is always at least one more typo in any document… > > > > >> 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 But it is outdated.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. > > > > This is simply not true. The vendor and module parameters are still > > there for usbserial (i.e. the generic driver). > > > > Would you mind updating this patch to document the sysfs-method as an > > alternative instead? Using sysfs is preferred as that functionality can > > be used with any usb-serial driver and the drivers can also be compiled > > in. > > Hm. For me it did not work as described and therefore I searched for > and found the solution cited below, which appears to confirm that it does > not work any more. Only with these hints to use the /sys approach I > could make it working immediately. > > Therefore I assumed that the documentation is outdated. > > But it might also be a hidden bug with the parameter passing. > I had tested on 4.0-rc3. > > I can try a little more but it might be waste of time to find out why the old > does not work, if there is a preferred method now. Please do try to figure out if it doesn't work as we have not deprecated this functionality yet. It should still work. Johan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html