> In this case, brltty appeared (or at least the device claim) after a dist-upgrade
Ah, do you happen to have a log of that dist-upgrade, so we can determine what brought it in?
> It still feels very bad form for a vendor device to use the default VID/PID of the underlying converter chip
Yes. Unfortunately that's what they have done, those devices are out there, and people have already bought them (and they cost a lot of money) :(
> In this case, brltty appeared (or at least the device claim) after a dist-upgrade
Ah, do you happen to have a log of that dist-upgrade, so we can determine what brought it in?
> It still feels very bad form for a vendor device to use the default VID/PID of the underlying converter chip
Yes. Unfortunately that's what they have done, those devices are out there, and people have already bought them (and they cost a lot of money) :(