Hi Till, On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:47:21 +0100, Till Harbaum / Lists wrote: > Am Mittwoch 26 März 2008 schrieb Jean Delvare: > > Note: your e-mail client is wrapping long lines -> patch doesn't apply. > I thought i've verified that, but obviously it happened anyway. > > > Please use a single /* */ pair for multi-line comments. > Ok > > > Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but if you already have a device > > ID, what's the point of switching to another? The original ID is not > > going to be deprecated and/or used for something else, is it? > The original id was donated by ftdi without stating anywhere that the id has > to be used with their products. So i used it for the i2c-tiny-usb which > obviously isn't based on a ftdi chipset. I've been told that ftdi has changed > that policy lately. While i don't expect them to actually ask me not to use > their id without using the chips i thought it was clever to switch to an id > i've explicitely bought to avoid future problems with ftdis new policies. > I'll change the id from the ftdi ones to the ones i recently bought on all my > projects. Just to avoid future problems as early as possible. > > Does this make sense?
Yes it does, thanks for clarifying. Please send an updated patch and I'll apply it. > Updated patch will follow. Do you plan to phase out the old VID/PID pair? If so, I'll have to send you back my i2c-tiny-usb device for a firmware update. -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ i2c mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/i2c
