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

[Samuel Thibault]

Dave Mielke, on Thu 13 Oct 2016 11:09:56 -0400, wrote:
> [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2016/10/13 at 17:05 +0200]
> >We haven't added such option to Debian. We do want the devices which use
> >generic IDs to be working in Debian without the user to have to know he
> >has to set this option to yes.
> 
> Then I don't understand how a whitelist would help since the default is to 
> recognize it.

AIUI, for now brltty only matches idVendor and idProduct. I'm saying it
could also at least match iManufacturer against "FTDI", to avoid e.g.
matching *all* 0403:6001 adaptors, but only those which haven't
programmed it to something else than "FTDI".

Samuel