on the fly support for new vendor/product ids
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#5 on the fly support for new vendor/product ids
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2008-10-22
2008-10-22
Anonymous
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FTDI chips are widely used and unfortunately many manufacurers choose to change vendor/product ids, making it impossible for the driver to detect, that it is in fact an ftdi.
Currently this can only be solved by recompiling the driver.
I suggest to give an on the fly possibility similar to the em28xx driver:
echo eb1a 2821 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/em28xx/new_id
I'll second this idea. Some way to add new PIDs would be very useful!
That is cool.
I don't have time to implement it though. The only alternative is to set the vid and pid on the when you load the module but that's obviously not ideal.