On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 13:06 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Our current prototypes borrow the Sierra VID > And the USB-IF might revoke your vendor id, if they find you shipping a > device with a different vendor id than the one you have been assigned.
One of the reasons we borrowed that VID is that we do not currently have a VID assigned. We are still deciding whether it is worth joining the USB-IF just to get a vendor ID for a few thousands of devices. I am of the opinion that it is, but I cannot sign the membership forms on behalf of GSI. We probably will end up buying a VID soon. > Why not just add your device id to an existing driver, sending in a > patch to do so. All distros will pick that up and then your device will > "just work" on all Linux distros. I was under the impression that drivers in the linux mainline had to be for hardware that was widely available. I take it then, that just adding support to an existing driver is acceptable? That wouldn't address people with older linux distributions, but would definitely be a good long term solution. It's really a shame there is no USB-IF standard for usb-serial... then things would even potentially work out of the box on windows. > > What driver should I target? > What chip do you use for your device? The device I am concerned about right now has an Altera arria2 connected to a cy7c68013a-56baxc (fx2lp). We have several form factor variations. A few have FTDI chips where I don't need to care, but can also do less. > If you just want "raw" data, then do something like the > drivers/usb/serial/zio.c driver, tiny, simple, and trivial. Yes, if I make source-level changes to the kernel I have many options. PS. Thank you for the very prompt reply! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
