[BRLTTY] Looking at iManufacturer and iProduct for generic USB devices?

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2016/10/13 at 01:24 +0200]

>We continue getting reports that brltty happens to get installed on some
>box for some reason, and the generic USB probing interferes with
>non-braille devices.  We have notably received:
>
>“for example it grabbed my USB<->1wire
>adapter which had "manufacturer"  and "product" field customized:
>
>Device: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd
...
>Couldn't Brltty use the iManufacturer field (and perhaps iProduct field
>too) to whitelist only devices which have the expected iManufacturer?

Yes, it certainly could. The problem with this case - 0403:6001 - is that those 
HandyTech devices haven't been programmed to be particularly unique.

   Manufacturer: FTDI
   Product: USB <-> Serial

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