From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757979AbYBRFBg (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:01:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751264AbYBRFB2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:01:28 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:45774 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751026AbYBRFB1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:01:27 -0500 Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:06:03 -0800 From: Greg KH To: David Newall Cc: Stephan Rose , Jiri Slaby , LKML Subject: Re: PL2303 Driver missing support for USB to Serial Cable Message-ID: <20080218050603.GB15141@kroah.com> References: <1203001060.8420.11.camel@software> <47B6DC7A.3040308@gmail.com> <47B6DF8C.7030106@davidnewall.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47B6DF8C.7030106@davidnewall.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:35:16PM +1030, David Newall wrote: > Stephan, > > Jiri Slaby wrote: > > On 02/14/2008 03:57 PM, Stephan Rose wrote: > >> I recently purchased a USB->Com Port serial cable from Radio Shack > >> (Model number 26-183) which did no seem to want to work. After looking > >> into it I discovered that it is based on the Prolific chipset using the > >> PL2303 driver. > > > > Well, would you mind creating, testing and posting a patch? > > > You needn't bother. As far as I'm concerned, what you sent is > sufficient and, as I am currently working on the pl2303 driver, you can > rest assured that it will be included in the patch that I send. That might be pretty tough to do, as it's already in the 2.6.25-rc2 release :) And please, patches need to be one-thing-per-patch. Don't try to mix cleanups, bug fixes, and also new devices ids all in one patch. Stephan, thanks for the report, but someone beat you to it by a few weeks already, the driver is updated. thanks, greg k-h