On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 03:03:57PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Alan Nisota wrote: > > And as far as getting the vendor to fix the device, I've asked, but > > they've been extremely reluctant to support Linux in the past. We'll > > see what they say. > > Don't present it as "supporting Linux". > > Present it as: your device is blatantly NONconformant to the USB specs, > and absolutely *ANY* host is within its rights to refuse to talk to > your device on that basis. Host controllers are not even expected to > be able to talk with it!! Reference: USB 2.0 spec, section 5.8.3 in > paragraphs 1 and 3. > > Customers may even have legal "false advertising" claims against this > vendor.
If the vendor is using the official USB markings on their device, they would also be in trademark violation with the usb.org working group, a body that takes these things very seriously. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
