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SubjectRe: PL2303 Driver missing support for USB to Serial Cable
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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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