Re: [PATCH] Documentation: usb: serial: fixed how to provide vendor and product id

[Belisko Marek]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 09:53:34PM +0100, Marek Belisko wrote:
>> From: "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> While trying to test the Pyra GSM/GPS/3G module I had reconfigured
>> the USB interface by mistake and therefore needed to run a different
>> USB driver than CSC-ACM. It turned out that I need the "usbserial" driver.
>>
>> This file is an official description how to use it:
>> Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt
>>
>> But it is outdated. The parameters vendor= and product= are no longer
>> available since ca. 3.12 which means that documentation is lagging behind
>> quite some time.
>>
>> Here was the solution:
>>
>> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=175499
>>
>>   insmod usbserial vendor=0x#### product=0x####
>>
>> becomes (first #### is vendor, second is product)
>>
>>   modprobe usbserial
>>   echo #### #### >/sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/generic/new_id
>>
>> This patch changes the documentation file as needed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> You are forwarding on a patch from someone else, why didn't you also
> sign-off on it?  Do you not agree with it?
I wasn't involved in patch development I just review it and forward.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

BR,

marek

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