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.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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