linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: usb: serial: fixed how to provide vendor and product id

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Date:	Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:42:47 +0100
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Belisko Marek <marek.belisko@...il.com>
Cc:	johan@...nel.org, corbet@....net,
	Linux USB Mailing List <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	GTA04 owners <gta04-owner@...delico.com>,
	"H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@...delico.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: usb: serial: fixed how to provide vendor
 and product id

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:41:24AM +0100, Belisko Marek wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 09:53:34PM +0100, Marek Belisko wrote:
> >> From: "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@...delico.com>
> >>
> >> While trying to test the Pyra GSM/GPS/3G module I had reconfigured
> >> the USB interface by mistake and therefore needed to run a different
> >> USB driver than CSC-ACM. It turned out that I need the "usbserial" driver.
> >>
> >> This file is an official description how to use it:
> >> Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt
> >>
> >> But it is outdated. The parameters vendor= and product= are no longer
> >> available since ca. 3.12 which means that documentation is lagging behind
> >> quite some time.
> >>
> >> Here was the solution:
> >>
> >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=175499
> >>
> >>   insmod usbserial vendor=0x#### product=0x####
> >>
> >> becomes (first #### is vendor, second is product)
> >>
> >>   modprobe usbserial
> >>   echo #### #### >/sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/generic/new_id
> >>
> >> This patch changes the documentation file as needed.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@...delico.com>
> >
> > You are forwarding on a patch from someone else, why didn't you also
> > sign-off on it?  Do you not agree with it?
> I wasn't involved in patch development I just review it and forward.

If you reviewed and forwarded it, why did you not add a signed-off-by:
to it?  Do you not think it is acceptable for merging?  If not, then we
shouldn't either :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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