Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

Greg KH
2008-02-12T23:23:45Z

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:01:32PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Hrm... How badly is pl2303 broken? I actually use that sucker, so if
> > it needs help - count me in.
>
> 2303 is pretty good (in fact by usb serial standards outstanding). It has
> all the internal locking needed for now and right down to killing
> lock_kernel entirely outside of open/close (which is going to hit
> everything).
>
> Only fixme I have tagged for it is
>
> - if you set an unsupported baud rate it reports it set rather than the
> one you got
>
> Which is a trivial mend for someone who has suitable docs (its marked
> FIXME: at the right spot)

I'll see what I can do about fixing this.

thanks,

greg k-h