Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:03:10 +0200
From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn?= Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>, Marek Belisko <marek@goldelico.com>,
        gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, corbet@lwn.net, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        gta04-owner@goldelico.com, "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation usb serial: fixed how to provide vendor
 and product id
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 01:57:05PM +0200, Bj?rn Mork wrote:
> Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> writes:
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:15:20PM +0200, Marek Belisko wrote:
> >> From: "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com>
> >> 
> >> The parameters vendor= and product= are only available
> >> if compiled as a kernel module
> 
> Really? I believe you should be able to do
> 
>   usbserial.vendor=vid usbserial.product=pid
> 
> on the command line if usbserial is built-in. Not that I recommend doing
> that.  But it should work.

You're right, the commit message is a little misleading, but the updated
documentation is correct. The current text does not mention the option
to pass module parameters on the kernel command line explicitly either.

Johan
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