Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Gerrit newbie making noise

2014-03-03 Thread Rob Brown
Hi all, I've decided to abandon the FTD2XX DLL patch I was working on. Mainly after a comment from Xiaofan about my approach actually not avoiding GPL problems: after reading more about the GPL, I believe that there *would* still be an issue. I would ask, however, that some of you reconsider y

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Gerrit newbie making noise

2014-03-03 Thread Duane Ellis
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > Usually that means your device does not have a unique serial number. > If the device has a unique serial number, Windows will not need to > re-install the driver for your device. This problem also occurs in locked down retail

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Gerrit newbie making noise

2014-03-03 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Andreas Fritiofson wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Andreas Fritiofson >> wrote: >> > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: >> >> Usually that means your device does not have a uni

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Gerrit newbie making noise

2014-03-03 Thread Andreas Fritiofson
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Andreas Fritiofson > wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > >> Usually that means your device does not have a unique serial number. > >> If the device has a unique serial number, Win

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Gerrit newbie making noise

2014-03-03 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Andreas Fritiofson wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: >> >> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Andreas Fritiofson >> wrote: >> > I haven't tried this myself or even heard someone suggest it before, but >> > I think you could actually

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Gerrit newbie making noise

2014-03-02 Thread Andreas Fritiofson
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Andreas Fritiofson > wrote: > > I haven't tried this myself or even heard someone suggest it before, but > I > > think you could actually make use of another misfeature of Windows. I > don't > > know why or ho

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Gerrit newbie making noise

2014-03-02 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Andreas Fritiofson wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Paul Fertser wrote: >> >> >> Regarding your patches, do I understand it right that you want to use >> proprietary library because you do not want to install WinUSB driver >> for your device because some

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Gerrit newbie making noise

2014-03-02 Thread Paul Fertser
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 04:13:09PM +0100, Andreas Fritiofson wrote: > So with the right setup, it should be possible to have WinUSB installed for > the > driver when it's plugged into one port, and the proprietary FTDI drivers > installed for the same device on another port. Switching application

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Gerrit newbie making noise

2014-03-02 Thread Andreas Fritiofson
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Paul Fertser wrote: > > Regarding your patches, do I understand it right that you want to use > proprietary library because you do not want to install WinUSB driver > for your device because some proprietary "crossworks" can't use that > adapter with WinUSB drivers

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Gerrit newbie making noise

2014-03-02 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 12:29:31AM +1300, Rob Brown wrote: > It seems that I've caused 5 changesets to be posted on gerrit due to the loop > in > step 5 of the patch guide, and I presume this will cause people to waste time > looking at them. It seems the hacking guide clearly states you'r

[OpenOCD-devel] Gerrit newbie making noise

2014-03-02 Thread Rob Brown
Hi, I've never used git or Gerrit before, but I'm trying to offer a patch to OpenOCD using http://openocd.sourceforge.net/doc/doxygen/html/patchguide.html It seems that I've caused 5 changesets to be posted on gerrit due to the loop in step 5 of the patch guide, and I presume this will cause