linux-kernel - Re: [BUG?] hid-core.c: hid->name = dev->manufacturer + dev->product ... why not + dev->serial?

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Date:	Tue, 9 Mar 2010 19:52:40 +0100
From:	Melchior FRANZ <melchior.franz@...il.com>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dima Zavin <dmitriyz@...gle.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...durent.com>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-iio@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG?] hid-core.c: hid->name = dev->manufacturer + dev->product ... why not + dev->serial?

* Dmitry Torokhov -- Tuesday 09 March 2010:
> Have you considered the fact that maybe you not using the right interface?

No. Because I'm not talking about *writing* an application, but about
*using* applications written by others. The producer of my two BU0836A
knows that the devices are different, I know that they are different,
the kernel knows that they are different, but the applications don't
know that, because the kernel doesn't tell them (via JSIOCGNAME).

> You need to work with guys at linux-iio@...r.kernel.org (which stands
> for Industrial I/O which is exactly what you are working with).

Hmm, then I wonder why the joystick names are different on Windows and
Linux already.  :-}

  unpatched Linux:  "Leo Bodnar BU0836A Interface"
  (Vista?) Windows: "BU0836A Interface" (not even the manufacturer ... pff)

Oh, well. Forget it. I'll just distribute the patch, then. I didn't have
much hope, anyway.

m.
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