On Wed, 9 Oct 2019, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > This would be better if you allowed matching against just the
> > idVendor
> > field rather than matching against both. That would make it a lot
> > simpler to match all Apple devices, for instance.
>
> That should already be possible. The matching code is the same as for
> the USB interface drivers.
>
> Something like:
> static const struct usb_device_id apple_match[] = {
> { .match_flags = USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_VENDOR,
> .idVendor = USB_VENDOR_APPLE
> },
> {}
> }
>
> And I couldn't use it in patch 5/5, as that's a range of product IDs,
> not all of them (which would be quite a lot more).
You can still use it in patch 5/5. Match any device with Apple's VID;
then have the probe routine return -ENODEV if the PID is outside the
range you want.
Alan Stern
