EHCI problem on -current, and unknown devs

[Bernd Walter]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:09:03PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> Bernd Walter wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 04:54:01PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> >> Still interested in the unknown devices though, if anyone has insight
> >> into that issue.
> > 
> > USB devices have optional strings for defining product, vendor name
> > (and many more).
> > Either the devices doesn't deliver those strings or the delivered are
> > broken, which is not that uncommon.
> 
> Right on, I guess my question is really, "Given that I have the vendor
> and device IDs in my usbdeves file, why don't they show up in dmesg?

Because all it does is creating defines for drivers to probe
their hardware.

> Is there somewhere else I need to put them?

Well - you can put it into the driver, but there are numberless
devices.

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