On Friday 08 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: > 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.
Good point. :) I'd expect USBCV to report this particular spec violation, though naturally I've not had occasion to test it. When I've worked on high speed USB firmware, there's been no reason to do anything other than conform to the specs. It's not like it's hard... - Dave - 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
