On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 05:58:25PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > I have a bike computer with a USB cradle and the obligatory crap windows app. > Didn't bother with it much but discovered there is an open source bike monitoring > app with download for lots of different hardware (Golden Cheetah). But it doesn't > support the VDO Z3. > > The hardware shows up as a Megawin USB serial bridge. There is a datasheet online, > and looks like others have fiddled with it in the past. Is there anything wrong > with just making a stub wrapper that calls the usb generic driver, or is it better > to just add more ID's to the existing driver? We've traditionally just created a new driver for devices like this, it should be really tiny, like the file drivers/usb/serial/zio.c We've talked about merging all of these "generic" drivers together, and probably should one day, as it would be simpler, no one has really gotten around to it yet. 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
