Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757062AbYCCPHw (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:07:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753917AbYCCPHn (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:07:43 -0500 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:52488 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753707AbYCCPHm (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:07:42 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:07:41 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: Dirk Eibach cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: add sysfs configuration interface for CP2101 In-Reply-To: <47CBC465.9070909@gdsys.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 875 Lines: 27 On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Dirk Eibach wrote: > From: Dirk Eibach > > The usb configuration data for the Silabs CP2101 usb to uart bridge > controller can be customized: > - Vendor ID > - Product ID > - Power Descriptor > - Release Number > - Serial Number > - Product Description String > > Silabs provides a windows-only tool to do that. > Since we use linux-only machines in our production-environment, we have no > proper way to customize the chips for our purpose. > So I added sysfs configuration support to the linux driver. Surely this sort of thing is better done in userspace, with libusb. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/