On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:51:34AM +1030, David Newall wrote: > Hi Willy, > > Lacking hardware for a week, I've had a bit of a hiatus from PL2303, but > I've got it back again now, and finished my work back-porting the 2.6 > driver to 2.4. Here's a new patch, which is more complete than my > previous one. It's based on the 2.6.24.1. > > There's a lot of trivial white-space changes and some things that have > been moved, which make the patch rather larger than it could be. I > didn't include those changes before, but have now in order that the > driver be closer to the 2.6 driver. It'll never be identical, of course. > > Note, too, that the 2.6 driver (and thus the patched 2.4) includes a 1k > circular buffer which rather duplicates a buffer in the 2.4 usbserial.c; > 2.6's usb-serial has had that buffer removed. As the buffer resolves > loss of the occasional putchar (e.g. from n_tty's opost), it is > important and correct, even in 2.4. > > Speaking as a user, I no longer see any problems with PL2303, and I > think this is okay to release.
If this works for you, I have no objection to it, but I can't test it as I don't run 2.4 on anything anymore :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
