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

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 26.03.2015 um 11:41 schrieb Belisko Marek <marek.belisko@xxxxxxxxx>:

> 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 But it is outdated.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.

Yes,
I asked Marek to submit this patch (from our local repo).

BR,
Nikolaus

>> 
>> thanks,
>> 
>> greg k-h
> 
> BR,
> 
> marek
> 
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