[BRLTTY] Looking at iManufacturer and iProduct for generic USB devices?
Dave Mielke
dave at mielke.cc
Thu Oct 13 12:14:12 EDT 2016
[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2016/10/13 at 17:14 +0200]
>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".
I'm not sure how volatile that'd be as it's possible that a manufacturer will,
at some point, customize the strings. If we restrict it too much then a
manufacturer action like that would require a new brltty release.
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