On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:31:51PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Again the usb-serial generic device is a very dumb, slow device, with no > > line settings at all. It's ment for testing and one-off prototypes, not > > for "real" devices in any way. > > Okay, I am *seriously* confused, then, because I've seen instructions > on the 'net that used to work which tell me to modprobe usbserial with > a vendor and product number. Is "usb-serial not a functioning driver" > new information that I missed? Yes, and all of that is wrong and written by people who have no idea what they are doing. > Maybe when it creates its entry in > /sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/generic/ it should say "testing" instead > of "generic", because "generic" implies to me that it's going to work > with just about anything. You know, like generic drugs. True, but it's too late now, and it's not like changing that will make anyone realize the problem. It usually happens when people start reporting "my device is so slow" that they let us know what the new device ids are, and we add them to the real drivers and then people are happy. If you can think of something that I can do to fix the above web sites, I'll be very happy. 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
