Re: serial driver not properly detecting modem

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>]

Steven Walter wrote:
> 
> It would seem that I have a modem (hardware based, not winmodem) of
> PCI_CLASS_COMMUNICATION_OTHER.  This, unfortunately, prevents it from
> being automagically detected by the serial driver, which only looks for
> devices of 
> 
> I've fixed this here merely by adding an entry to the PCI table of
> serial.c for PCI_CLASS_COMMUNICATION_OTHER.  Is this the best way to fix
> this?  Is there some reason that this shouldn't be done in general?  If
> not, I'd like to see it fix in the kernel proper.

That won't work for a general rule, since winmodems list themselves as
'OTHER' too.  Just add your PCI id above the
PCI_CLASS_COMMUNICATION_SERIAL.

Make sure you cc me and tytso@mit.edu on such a patch...

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