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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Stephan Rose <stephan@eciinternational.de>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PL2303 Driver missing support for USB to Serial Cable
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:06:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080218050603.GB15141@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47B6DF8C.7030106@davidnewall.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-18  5:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-14 14:57 Stephan Rose
2008-02-16 12:52 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-02-16 13:05   ` David Newall
2008-02-18  5:06     ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-02-20 14:46       ` Stephan Rose

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