On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:36:49PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 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.

I think the Vendor=kernel, Product=PCI IDs version is more reasonable.

Or, we could just forget the PCI data, which is available elsewhere and
do:

Vendor = Linux kernel x.y.z
Product = ohci-hcd .... whatever
Version = X.Y

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs

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