Hi all,
I've taken a big stick to the Inside Out Networks Edgeport USB to serial
Linux driver, and now have a new version available. As I couldn't get
the SourceForge patch page to accept a new patch (the description is
there, but not the patch itself...) I've attached it to this message.
Only 1 thing has changed since the last version:
- driver now requires the usbserial.o core to work properly.
This means that the edgeport driver should work alongside all of the
other usb-serial drivers just fine. But to do this I had to strip out
all of the support for the userspace program that enabled you to
configure the devices to bind to a specific port based on the physical
position on the usb tree, sorry. I'll be reintroducing that feature for
all usb-serial drivers in 2.5, as it would require a large number of
changes in the usbserial core driver, which isn't prudent in a stable
kernel.
I've seen some small oopses with the driver, so be cautious, this is not
as stable as the previous version (which is still available at the
SourgeForge patch page.)
Any comments, problems, or issues regarding this version of the driver,
are welcomed.
Current known outstanding issues:
- oops on closing of the port sometimes
- closing the port doesn't flush out all remaining bytes some
times (related to the above I think.)
- driver is _not_ SMP safe.
thanks,
greg k-h
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greg@(kroah|wirex).com
usb-edgeport-serial-2.4.2.patch.gz
