On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 04:25:50PM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > >>>> But it is outdated.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 Therefore I assumed that the documentation is outdated.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. > > Good news: > > I have tried again (this time with 4.0-rc5) and was successful. I have no > clue why it did not work with my tests with 4.0-rc3. Great. > So we will edit the patch to describe > * that the sysfs method is in addition, and preferred > * and works even if driver is compiled into the kernel (which I > haven’t tested in my setup but assume it works as well) > > Ok? That should do it (and, yes, it works when the module is compiled in). Thanks, 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
