Re: [Libusb-devel] USB VID/PID for open source projects

[François R. <re...@fr...>]

Le 24 mars 2011 à 17:50, Tyler W. Wilson a écrit :

>>> And I do not really like to use random USB VID/PID like
>>> what we do right now -- that is the motivation to get a
>>> valid PID in the first place.
>> I don't see any good alternative.  One advantage of using an obviously
>> bogus VID/PID (like DEAD/BEEF) is that it will (hopefully) make it
>> obvious to people that they have to provide their own.  Untold misery
>> ensued after some idiot company released a product using the FX2's
>> default VID/PID, then submitted their driver to WHQL and got it
>> installed in the Windows Driver Library.  After that, any time anyone
>> plugged in an unconfigured FX2, Windows helpfully installed the wrong
>> driver.
> We ran into the same thing with Pleo, which used an Atmel ARM7. There 
> was some GPS manufacturer which used the default Atmel VID/PID and got 
> their driver (usbser.sys based) approved via WHQL. Ugly.

This really looks like a flaw in WHQL itself then...
they shouldn't approve a driver from someone that is not the vendor of the advertised IDs unless they have an explicit authorization from the real manufacturer...
hmm this would prevent writing FLOSS driver though... (but then signed binaries can hardly be Free Software, at least not real one, and certainly not copyleft).

Well at the minimum they should check with the owner of the IDs.

François.