On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 03:26:06PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Russell Nelson <russnelson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > It looks like a Google search for "modprobe usbserial vendor" is > > useful in finding the miscreant advice. In particular, this page: > > http://wiki.debian.org/usbserial looks like a farrago of wrongness. > > Greg, is this article no longer correct? I found it linked off the > Debian page: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6573 I wrote that almost 10 years ago, what do you think? :) > I'm trying to figure out how stern to be in warning people that > usbgeneric isn't what they want to use. Since inevitably someone will > point to the article written by the author of the code, I'll have to > have "the straight dope" from "the horse's mouth". Nowhere in that article does it say, "do this for your modem device". I didn't ever think that anyone would be foolish enough to actually try the generic driver for a "real" device, as if they did, they would see just how slow it really was, and then write a real driver for it. I guess I underestimated people in my youth :) 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
