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Documentation usb serial: fixed how to provide vendor and product id

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While trying to test a Cinterion GSM/GPS/3G module I had reconfigured
the USB interface by mistake and therefore needed to run a different
USB driver than CDC-ACM. It turned out that I need the "usbserial" driver.

This file is an official description how to use it:
Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt

But it is outdated. The parameters vendor= and product= have been
superseded by a /sys interface.

Here was the solution:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=175499

  insmod usbserial vendor=0x#### product=0x####

becomes (first #### is vendor, second is product)

  modprobe usbserial
  echo #### #### >/sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/generic/new_id

This patch changes the documentation file to describe the modern variant.
Please note that the old one still works (if compiled as module).

Signed-off-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Belisko <marek@goldelico.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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H. Nikolaus Schaller 2015-04-20 22:15:20 +02:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
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@ -465,12 +465,14 @@ Generic Serial driver
device, and does not support any kind of device flow control. All that
is required of your device is that it has at least one bulk in endpoint,
or one bulk out endpoint.
To enable the generic driver to recognize your device, build the driver
as a module and load it by the following invocation:
To enable the generic driver to recognize your device, provide
echo <vid> <pid> >/sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/generic/new_id
where the <vid> and <pid> is replaced with the hex representation of your
device's vendor id and product id.
If the driver is compiled as a module you can also provide one id when
loading the module
insmod usbserial vendor=0x#### product=0x####
where the #### is replaced with the hex representation of your device's
vendor id and product id.
This driver has been successfully used to connect to the NetChip USB
development board, providing a way to develop USB firmware without