On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:00:07AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > This driver is used to implement USB-serial like behaviour over dummy > USB cables. These are used in the following devices: > Funsoft Serial USB driver > Genesys Logic GL620USB USB Laplink cable > HP4x (48/49) Serial cable > Motorola phones > Siemens USB-MPI Serial USB driver > ViVOpay USB Serial Driver > ZIO Motherboard USB driver I like the idea, but not the name :) Ideally, all of these would be able to be handled by the usb-serial generic driver directly. But really, having these multiple drivers is a good thing, they properly convey to the user what the device is, and it gives these developers and companies a sense of ownership over the code, and that matters at times. So you lost the names of the devices with this patch, which isn't good. It's my end-goal to move the usb-serial layer to be more like libata, where it is dirt-simple to make a new disk driver, only a few fields to fill in, what you want to override. So, any work toward simplification of the generic layer would be appreciated to make these individual drivers even smaller in the end. So don't delete them, but try to consolidate the code, or just make it so that it can be deleted, and you only need a simple module init/exit function that registeres a single structure, like libata. Sound reasonable? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
