On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 10:30:28 -0700
"Maciej __enczykowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

| > Sure, but that will be slower than using the airprime driver.  And it
| > will work automatically with this patch.  I'll add it to my queue.
| 
| Hey, what do you mean by slower?  Isn't the airprime driver merely a
| wrapper which adds usb serial port detection to a few more device IDs?

 No, it has its own write(), read() and open() methods.

| Doesn't this mean that having/loading airprime (with patch) will be
| functionally equivalent to loading up "usbserial vendor=0x1410
| product=0x1100"?

 No, because it will use the generic driver.

| What will be slower (less convenient, non-autoprobing, etc... sure)?
| 
| Am I missing something obvious here?

 Not so obvious if you don't know how the USB-Serial layer works. :)

-- 
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino

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