Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Using FTDI device ids from Linux kernel

From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 17:53:25 +0200
Hi,

Do you have any idea how volatile this data is, how quickly it’s changing?
There are already some data sets which are picked up weekly from external sources (e.g., IEEE manuf, PEN). This could be handled the same way if as volatile as these.

Thanks,
Jaap


> On 26 Jul 2020, at 11:01, Tomasz Moń <desowin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The Linux kernel FTDI SIO driver contains quite a comprehensive USB
> VID/PID database. The values are defined in
> linux/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h and are combined together in
> id_table_combined in linux/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c. The protocol
> these devices use is being dissected by FTDI FT dissector.
> 
> FTDI FT dissector has its own short list of VID/PID pairs. How could
> we expand the list with the IDs from Linux kernel (I guess manually is
> one option, but that just sounds bad)?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Tomasz Moń