Re: usb/serial - pl2303 module - buffer overflow

2018-06-25 Thread Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer
Hi Greg, a big thank for your exhaustive explanation. Of course this scenario was more about testing than real-world experience since most serial protocols I am aware of use much shorter messages. What regards to the Prolific chip: I fully agree with you that it is a consumer IC which does not co

Re: usb/serial - pl2303 module - buffer overflow

2018-06-25 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 05:40:37PM +0200, Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer wrote: > Hi people, > > as I am working with a PL2303-based USB-to-serial converter I discovered > that the SW-based flow control was unsupported for all kernels till the > upcoming 4.18 release. Thanks to the patch by Florian Zum

usb/serial - pl2303 module - buffer overflow

2018-06-24 Thread Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer
Hi people, as I am working with a PL2303-based USB-to-serial converter I discovered that the SW-based flow control was unsupported for all kernels till the upcoming 4.18 release. Thanks to the patch by Florian Zumbiehl this deficit was finally resolved and also my tests showed that now the flow ch