Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: upower
A faulty udev rule causes ANY devices that use the popular FDTI RS232 to USB
chips to be falsely identified as a device produced by "Watts Up? inc.".
If the company was too lazy to register a vendor ID then they shouldn't have
their devices be considered unique as this breaks compatibility the generic USB
to Serial IC.
Lord knows what would happen if upowerd tried to probe something like an AVR
programmer while it was writing to a chip!
This rule should be removed, since I've never even heard of the "Watts Up pro",
but everything from arduino boards to simple USB serial dongles use this chip!
This problem has been around since at least mid june, judging by some
debian bug reports on the same issue.
** Affects: upower (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
upowerd still hogs fdti RS232 to USB chips
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