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

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Thu Oct 13 12:17:13 EDT 2016


Dave Mielke, on Thu 13 Oct 2016 12:14:12 -0400, wrote:
> [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.

Perhaps we can add another parameter to control that?

Samuel


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