Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PL2303 Driver missing support for USB to Serial Cable | From | Stephan Rose <> | Date | Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:46:03 -0500 |
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On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 21:06 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > 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.
No problem, glad it's already in! :)
Thanks,
Stephan
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