Matthew Dharm wrote: > 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. That would be a great feature. Plus add this specific VID/PID to it's list, so that all Peter has to do is eject the initial device. This means that the kernel isn't arbitrarily throwing away half the hardware (even if it's just useless windows drivers) and the user has control but without too much hassle. -- Phil Dibowitz phil@xxxxxxxx Open Source software and tech docs Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss
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