> applied in reverse (a partial revert to 2.6.22) makes > the corruption go away, but is likely just papering over the root cause. > Cc'ed the gpsbabel developer mailing list, in case we have to > fix this in userspace.
Please try the following diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c --- linux.vanilla-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c 2008-01-02 16:04:24.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c 2008-01-07 11:47:59.000000000 +0000 @@ -531,6 +531,13 @@ } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags); + /* The PL2303 is reported to lose bytes if you change + serial settings even to the same values as before. Thus + we actually need to filter in this specific case */ + + if (!tty_termios_hw_change(port->tty->termios, old_termios)) + return; + cflag = port->tty->termios->c_cflag; buf = kzalloc(7, GFP_KERNEL); diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c --- linux.vanilla-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c 2008-01-02 16:04:19.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c 2008-01-07 11:43:39.000000000 +0000 @@ -360,6 +360,25 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_termios_copy_hw); /** + * tty_termios_hw_change - check for setting change + * @a: termios + * @b: termios to compare + * + * Check if any of the bits that affect a dumb device have changed + * between the two termios structures, or a speed change is needed. + */ + +int tty_termios_hw_change(struct ktermios *a, struct ktermios *b) +{ + if (a->c_ispeed != b->c_ispeed || a->c_ospeed != b->c_ospeed) + return 1; + if ((a->c_cflag ^ b->c_cflag) & ~(HUPCL | CREAD | CLOCAL)) + return 1; + return 0; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_termios_hw_change); + +/** * change_termios - update termios values * @tty: tty to update * @new_termios: desired new value diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/include/linux/tty.h linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/include/linux/tty.h --- linux.vanilla-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/include/linux/tty.h 2008-01-02 16:04:25.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/include/linux/tty.h 2008-01-07 11:43:19.000000000 +0000 @@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ extern void tty_termios_encode_baud_rate(struct ktermios *termios, speed_t ibaud, speed_t obaud); extern void tty_encode_baud_rate(struct tty_struct *tty, speed_t ibaud, speed_t obaud); extern void tty_termios_copy_hw(struct ktermios *new, struct ktermios *old); +extern int tty_termios_hw_change(struct ktermios *a, struct ktermios *b); extern struct tty_ldisc *tty_ldisc_ref(struct tty_struct *); extern void tty_ldisc_deref(struct tty_ldisc *); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html