linux-kernel - Re: RFC: Platform data for onboard USB assets

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Message-ID: <20110317201835.GM31411@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:18:35 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, andy.green@...aro.org,
	Linux USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Platform data for onboard USB assets

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 01:13:20PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:14:01PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> > PandaBoards are becoming quite popular.

> I have one right here.

> But can't this device be detected by the usb device id and the quirk
> added that way?  Like all other "odd" USB devices are currently handled?

It's going to be an off the shelf USB ethernet controller.  I'd be
astonished if the board-configurable device IDs weren't set from the
same SEPROM that the MAC address is so it'd just show up as a generic
chip of whatever kind.
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