On 8/21/05, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 02:11:19AM +0200, Eric Piel wrote: > > Hello, > > > > 19.08.2005 20:53, Jesper Juhl wrote/a écrit: > > >I've just noticed that my USB controller(s) show up as having "Wrong > > >ID" and now I'm wondering what exactely that means and what I can do > > >about it (kernel 2.6.13-rc6-mm1 in case it matters). > > > > > >Is it a wrong PCI ID? If so, how's the controller recognized at all? > > > > > >I stopped by http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/iii// which had an entry saying : > > > > > >0925 VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) > > > Wrong ID used in subsystem ID of VIA USB controllers. > > > > > I've never heard of this before. However, cheking the list shows that > > every vendor which has a "Wrong ID" entry also a normal one. So my guess > > is that "wrong ID" means that somewhere in the process of putting the > > PCI ID (during the design of the device) someone mistook which ID to > > put. So this would mean that your device doesn't have the official ID of > > VIA, but it uses an unofficial one (famous enough to be listed though). > > Nothing to worry about. > > > > : > > >00:04.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 > > >controller] (rev 16) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) > > > Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller > > > > > > > >Can anyone explain this to me? The controllers are working just > > >fine, so it's not too important, I'm just a currious nature :) > > > > Well, as I said before, it's just pure guess, but it's cool to invent > > stories ;-) > > It's a correct guess, though. They mixed up the vendor and device IDs in > the subsystem ID of their USB controllers. >
Thank you for the explanation guys. -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/