On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:31:34PM -0400, Perry Hung wrote:
> An official recent Windows driver from FTDI detects counterfeit devices
> and reprograms the internal EEPROM containing the USB PID to 0, effectively
> bricking the device.
>
> Add support for this VID/PID pair to correctly bind the driver on these
> devices.
>
> See:
> http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-killing-fake-chips/
>
> Signed-off-by: Perry Hung <[email protected]>
Thanks for doing this, Johan, feel free to add:
Cc: stable <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
to it when/if you apply it to your tree.
thanks,
greg k-h
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