Re: Toshiba G450 kernel patch

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On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 11:16:07PM +0200, Peter Magdina wrote:
> Imagine you already have some USB serial device plugged and running
> and you decide to plug this one. I am not sure, because I don't
> have much experiences, but I guess you will have to unload usbserial
> module and load it once again with vendor/product params, don't you?
> And what will happen with already using other USB device ?

That's a fair criticism.  But I think the right thing to do here is to make
usb-serial accept new VID/PIDs without needing to be unloaded/reloaded,
then do everything in userspace.

Matt

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