Re: broken modules.alias entries for some USB devices

[iSteve]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:30:35 +0400
Sergey Vlasov <vsu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The problem is that the bcdDevice field is supposed to be BCD - i.e.,
> its hex representation should contain only decimal digits 0..9.
> Therefore a proper USB device cannot have bcdDevice == 0x030a.
> Apparently some ibmcam devices violate this and use the bcdDevice field
> as if it was binary.
> 
> The code in scripts/mod/file2alias.c assumes that the bcdDevice_lo and
> bcdDevice_hi field contain proper BCD data.  Seems that, thanks to buggy
> hardware, this assumption is incorrect, and the code needs to support
> any hex numbers there.

So the 'correct' alias for this device should be eg.:
usb:v0545p800Dd030Adc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
right?

Given this new info... what if _lo is 0x030a and _hi is 0x030f? How would the
alias look like? Or worse, what if _lo is 0x030a and _hi is 0x040a?

Would these be correct?
usb:v0545p800Dd030[A-F]dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
usb:v0545p800Dd0[30A-40A]dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*

Thanks in advance.
-- 
 -- iSteve
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