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Subject: Re: c++ wraper: open(vid,pid) fails for devices with a missing iManufacturer, iProduct or iSerial

From: Matthias Janke <matthias.janke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: libftdi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 13:46:56 +0200
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Am Fri, 12 May 2017 13:32:50 +0200
schrieb Matthias Janke <matthias.janke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>   Hi All,
>   
>   I'm using the c++ wrapper of libftdi (git co of yesterday) to
>   communicate with a FT2232HL on a Lattice XO2 Eval board
>   (LCMXO2-7000HE-B-EVN) this board has no programmed in iSerial.
>   
>   A simple c++ program which just opens and closes the device fails
> with "libusb_get_string_descriptor_ascii() failed" this is also true
> for the find_all_pp example (find_all, works). This failure
> originates in the use of the get_strings() function inside all c++
> open() functions. This function wants all three iManufractuer,
> iProduct and iSerial to be present. The C-API allows one to pass NULL
> to ignore these descriptors. This is currently not possible with the
> c++ api. To properly fix this I suspect an api break is needed. As
> temporary ugly workaround I use the appended patch. Are there other
> ideas to fix this? 
>   Cheerio,
>   Matthias
> 
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