On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:04:09PM +0200, Josua Dietze wrote: > When adding the ID of a composite device dynamically to a driver, > all hitherto unbound interfaces are bound to this driver which is > often not intended. It isn't? What happens wrong with this? Can't you just unbind the ones you don't want? > The patch adds the option to tell the targeted interface class to a > driver, in addition to the device ID. > > Example: > $ echo "1234 2a2a ff" >/sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/generic/new_id > will bind only vendor-specific interfaces to usbserial. You really shouldn't be using the generic usb serial driver for anything "real", so that's not a good reason to accept this patch :) And your patch is linewrapped :( Anyway, I'm still not convinced that this is really needed, what real-world use requires this? 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
