Re: FTDI SIO patch to allow custom vendor/product IDs.

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:48:31PM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> 
> To prevent XP from hijacking devices that require a different driver,
> some people flash a different Vendor/Product ID into their FTDI based
> device. 
> 
> Also some "new" devices may come out which are perfectly valid to be
> driven by the ftdi_sio driver, but happen to have a vendor/product
> id which is not (yet) included in the driver.  I've built a patch
> that allows you to tell the driver "vendor=... product=...." to 
> make it accept such devices.
> 
> Does this patch make sense?

I think it would be much better to have something like the dynamic PCI IDs
support to USB aswell.

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