My TI eZ430 (MSP-FET430UIF JTAG Tool) usb dongle works fine with 2.6.23.1 and earlier, but doesn't work with 2.6.24-rc1; the ti_usb_3410_5052 module is loaded but the device descriptor is bogus, reporting only a single configuration, whereas in 2.6.23.1 it reports 2 configurations, allowing one to select the second configuration to get a serial port. git bisect fingered this commit: 063a2da8f01806906f7d7b1a1424b9afddebc443 "USB: serial core should respect driver requirements" -- Steven King -- sfking at fdwdc dot com