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Subject: Re: New libftdi version soon?

From: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: libftdi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Uwe Bonnes <bon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:26:55 +0100
On Thursday, 15. March 2012 16:31:16 Uwe Bonnes wrote:
>     Thomas> Anything else that should be in there? Any outstanding
> patches?
> 
> The FT-X family is new now. Support in the kernel is on the way. As I
> learned today, the special functions are reached by simply writing to the
> device, so either perhaps the kernel driver is enough or the libftdi uart
> functionality. However as FT-X has a new PID, some work in libftdi needs
> to be done.

Thanks for pointing it out. Since there doesn't seem to be much experience 
with the new FT-X family chipset yet, I'd say we shouldn't delay
a new libftdi 0.x release because of it.

Cheers,
Thomas

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