On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 03:40:35PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 02:24:03PM -0700, 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 works today for all usb devices with the sysfs new_id file. So > nothing needs to be done :) In that case, we should reject this patch and push all of this into userspace. Matt -- Matthew Dharm Home: mdharm-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver C: Why are you upgrading to NT? AJ: It must be the sick, sadistic streak that runs through me. -- Chief and A.J. User Friendly, 5/12/1998
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