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

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