Re: usbserial generic driver problems with system that also has USB-serial converter

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Hi,

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:51:10PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:48:35PM -0500, Forest Bond wrote:
> > > Looks good, care to send it in patch format, with a signed-off-by: line
> > > so that I can apply it?
> > 
> > I can do that.  I renamed the driver to "vivopay-usbserial".  This may seem
> > redundant given that it would live in drivers/usb/serial, but I thought it was
> > appropriate given that the device provides more than one interface so there
> > could be a "vivopay-hid" driver in the future.  Is this the right approach?
> 
> It's not redundant, because as you note, it needs to live in the global
> namespace of all kernel modules.
> 
> But it does seem a bit "long", but I can't think of a better name right
> now.  How about leaving it at 'vivopay' and then if there is a hid
> driver, you can make that one 'vivopay-hid' later on?

Would you accept it with the long name ("vivopay-usbserial")?  That feels more
accurate to me, but my sensibilities may be off here as I don't do a lot of
driver development.

Thanks,
Forest
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Forest Bond
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