On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 12:00:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 11:50 AM Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Since you have at least one of those cables, would you mind installing the > > app and sending me the output? Just so I know which information I can get > > from an official Suunto cable? > > I tried to, but I have once more completely mis-placed my USB-C to A cable. > > I have at least four of those things lying around, since we have three > Pixel's in the household and I'm pretty sure they all came with one. > And _last_ time I couldn't find it I ordered one off Amazon. > > They are small and I never use them. > > I'll try to look around some more. > > NOTE! You can *not* rely on whatever product name strings that you get > from various apps. They do not come from the device itself, they come > from a database lookup of the vendor/device ID numbers. And even if > that database is in some system library, it doesn't mean that every > Android device will have the _same_ database.
I believe that to be wrong. As you see in the screenshot posted here, there's a name from a database, and a name as reported from the device. Clearly the name "Smartinterface" is not what came from some database for Vendor ID 0403 - as that is FTDI. > So for all I know, you might literally get two different names for the > same device on two different phones, just because they have different > Android versions on them. You might be right. I need to spend more time reading the specs to understand how much of this comes from the USB spec vs interpretation in Android. > So you really should only trust the numerical vendor/device ID. That's > what the actual USB device will report. See above. Wouldn't be the first time I'm wrong, won't be the last. /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
