Re: PL2303 Driver missing support for USB to Serial Cable

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Feb 18 2008 - 00:01:38 EST


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
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