On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:37:01PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > > I'd say to switch them in hcd.c, as the manufacturer of the USB card > > shows up in the Product line with the hcd code, > > PCI actually stores "manufacturer plus product name", and if > you configure the kernel without PCI names (or don't have a > name for that vendor/product) it'll be a cryptic pair of numbers. > > That wouldn't make much sense as a manufacturer name, but > folk will be somewhat familiar with that pair of numbers from > PCI showing it on the same system. > > > > which might confuse people (it confused me :) > > Once everything uses the HCD framework, the answer will > be consistent (whatever it is) and there won't be confusion. > But as I said, it's easily switched if it seems important.
Ok, I'm open to other people's views about this. What does everyone else think? Personally, I think it makes usbview and other /proc/bus/usb/devices based tools look a little strange. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
