[PATCH] 10-usb-pda.fdi update for PalmOS USB handhelds

Kevin R. Page hal-list at krp.org.uk
Tue Feb 26 06:49:52 PST 2008


On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 14:41 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> I have commited them, but IMO they may conflict partly with the
> already existing serial device entries because they mark now the
> serial device and the USB device itselft with a hotsync interface. 

I considered deprecating the serial entries but didn't want to presume
what other distributions might be doing via HAL with the visor provided
serial ports.

To use libusb with pilot-link the visor module must be blacklisted, so
the serial devices won't be created in the first place - no problem
here.

For those still using visor with "fallback" devices HAL already matches
on both the serial ports the visor module creates. So while the patch
means there's a third UDI marked with a pda capability and
hotsync_interface, for most devices there have *always* been two UDIs
marked.

Therefore it seemed like a reasonable assumption that it wouldn't cause
additional breakage?

Thanks for the brevity hint!

Regards,

kev.



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