linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] *** SUBJECT HERE ***

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Message-Id: <201306260829.r5Q8Txm5003881@eskarina.iko.pp.se>
Date:	Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:29:59 +0200
From:	Anders Hammarquist <iko@....pp.se>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] *** SUBJECT HERE ***

In a message of Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:39:11 -0700, Greg KH writes:
>> Indeed. I'd already had some (failed) thoughts about how to handle it
>> nicely. Now I've had another think through, and I have something which
>> deals with it and at least complains if TI_EXTRA_VID_PID_COUNT is changed
>> without changing the initializer. Patch 2/2
>
>Why don't we just drop the extra id thing entirely?  The usb-serial
>subsystem handles new device ids being added dynamically from sysfs for
>a long time now.  Removing this module option would clean up the code a
>lot, and prevent these errors from ever happening again.

Aha, yes, I'm all for that (had I only known I'd have done that to start
with). I'll look in to it.

/Anders
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