Re: [PATCH] small FTDI USB serial driver update

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Jul 26 2010 - 13:48:45 EST


On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 07:36:08AM -0700, David A. Ranch wrote:
>
> Hello Greg,
>
> Thanks for getting back to me! I didn't know what you meant by
> "Sign-off" but I just researched it per
> http://lwn.net/Articles/139918 (please let me know if that post
> doesn't apply anymore). This will be my first kernel patch. Let's
> try again:

Close, but it's a bit off. Try looking at the version in the kernel
tree that you are patching against (should be 2.6.34 or newer).

>
> Reason for patch:
> -----------------
> This patch is for a US Interface, Inc. "Navigator" USB device.
> Specifically, it's a HAM Radio USB sound modem that also
> incorporates three pairs of unique FTDI serial ports. The standard
> Linux FTDI serial driver will only recognize the first two serial
> ports of an unknown FDTI derived device and this patch adds in
> recognition to these specific new IDs.
>
>
> Diffs are against a vanilla 2.6.34

The Signed-off-by: line should go here.

>
>
> --- ftdi_sio_ids.h.orig 2010-07-25 07:17:44.000000000 -0700
> +++ ftdi_sio_ids.h 2010-07-25 07:20:46.000000000 -0700

need a full path to the driver, something like:
a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h.orig


> @@ -40,6 +40,13 @@
>
> #define FTDI_NXTCAM_PID 0xABB8 /* NXTCam for
> Mindstorms NXT */
>
> +/* US Interface Navigator (http://www.usinterface.com/). */
> +/* Submitted by David Ranch */
> +#define FTDI_USINT_CAT_PID 0xB810 /* Navigator CAT and 2nd PTT
> lines */

The patch is line-wrapped and can't be applied.

> +#define FTDI_USINT_WKEY_PID 0xB811 /* Navigator WKEY and FSK lines */
> +#define FTDI_USINT_RS232_PID 0xB812 /* Navigator RS232 and
> CONFIG lines */
> +
> +
> /* OOCDlink by Joern Kaipf <joernk@xxxxxx>
> * (http://www.joernonline.de/dw/doku.php?id=start&idx=projects:oocdlink)
> */
> #define FTDI_OOCDLINK_PID 0xbaf8 /* Amontec JTAGkey */
>
>
>
> --- ftdi_sio.c.orig 2010-07-25 07:21:10.000000000 -0700
> +++ ftdi_sio.c 2010-07-25 07:24:21.000000000 -0700
> @@ -162,6 +162,9 @@ static struct usb_device_id id_table_com
> { USB_DEVICE(FTDI_VID, FTDI_SCS_DEVICE_5_PID) },
> { USB_DEVICE(FTDI_VID, FTDI_SCS_DEVICE_6_PID) },

Your email client stripped off the tabs and converted them to spaces,
making the patch impossible to apply.

Care to redo it all and try again?

thanks,

greg k-h
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