usb: serial: ftdi_sio: add "bricked" FTDI device PID
authorPerry Hung <iperry@gmail.com>
Thu, 23 Oct 2014 03:31:34 +0000 (23:31 -0400)
committerJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Thu, 23 Oct 2014 07:52:57 +0000 (09:52 +0200)
An official recent Windows driver from FTDI detects counterfeit devices
and reprograms the internal EEPROM containing the USB PID to 0, effectively
bricking the device.

Add support for this VID/PID pair to correctly bind the driver on these
devices.

See:
http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-killing-fake-chips/

Signed-off-by: Perry Hung <iperry@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h

Simple merge
Simple merge