From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: Platform data for onboard USB assets
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:11:36 +0100
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On Thursday 17 March 2011 21:26:14 Greg KH wrote:
> > It's going to be an off the shelf USB ethernet controller.  I'd be
> > astonished if the board-configurable device IDs weren't set from the
> > same SEPROM that the MAC address is so it'd just show up as a generic
> > chip of whatever kind.
> 
> Huh?  All USB controllers you buy have the ability to set the vendor and
> product id, so you should always be able to key off of that.
> 
> Isn't that the case here?

The same EEPROM that is missing here carries both the MAC address and
the vendor/product ID overrides.

	Arnd
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