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Subject: Re: libftdi versus libftd2xx

From: Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: libftdi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:01:10 +0800
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:22 PM, pbhat <prashanth.bhat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In other words, if I need to detach the driver, does it imply that I must
>> use libftdi (rather than libftd2xx)?
>>
>
> No. libftd2xx under Linux is also based libusb, the old version
> was based on libusb-1.0, the latest version is based on libusb-1.0.8.

Typo here, the old version was based on libusb-0.1.

> Both libftdi (0.x or 1.0) and libftd2xx will have to detach the kernel
> ftdi_sio driver in order to work under Linux, since both are based
> on libusb.
>
>


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