Re: [PATCH] 2.4: Back-port of pl2303.c from 2.6.24.1

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:51:34AM +1030, David Newall wrote:
> Hi Willy,
> 
> Lacking hardware for a week, I've had a bit of a hiatus from PL2303, but
> I've got it back again now, and finished my work back-porting the 2.6
> driver to 2.4.  Here's a new patch, which is more complete than my
> previous one.  It's based on the 2.6.24.1.
> 
> There's a lot of trivial white-space changes and some things that have
> been moved, which make the patch rather larger than it could be.  I
> didn't include those changes before, but have now in order that the
> driver be closer to the 2.6 driver.  It'll never be identical, of course.
> 
> Note, too, that the 2.6 driver (and thus the patched 2.4) includes a 1k
> circular buffer which rather duplicates a buffer in the 2.4 usbserial.c;
> 2.6's usb-serial has had that buffer removed.  As the buffer resolves
> loss of the occasional putchar (e.g. from n_tty's opost), it is
> important and correct, even in 2.4.
> 
> Speaking as a user, I no longer see any problems with PL2303, and I
> think this is okay to release.

If this works for you, I have no objection to it, but I can't test it as
I don't run 2.4 on anything anymore :)

thanks,

greg k-h