Re: [CentOS] Getting something into centosplus for 5.2?

2008-07-06 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 03:45:39PM -0700, Ian Forde wrote:
 I've got a USB to serial adapter that I picked up from Radio Shack
 earlier this year.  The updated pl2303 driver is already in the
 mainstream kernel as per
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429652 but I'm not getting
 much traction from Red Hat as far as them updating the kernel.  So every
 time there's an updated kernel, I have to rebuild the srpm.
 
 I figure that this is the kind of situation that -plus is meant to
 solve... I've already had to switch one of my boxes over to plus today
 given that the video4linux srpm (from atrpms) won't rebuild easily on
 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5, and I'm thinking that having both on plus with
 everything I need in them would make it a lot easier...
 
 (There's already precedent here... I found
 linux-2.6.18-bz443853_powernow_null_deref.patch and
 linux-2.6.18-bz444759_hi_iowait.patch in the srpm...)
 
 Thanks for reading...
 

I won't speak on the -plus topic, but as far as upstream is concerned,
you definitely need to open an RFE SR if you're a paying customer...
probably won't be super speedy, but better than your bug sitting around
forever ignored. :)

Ray
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Re: [CentOS] Getting something into centosplus for 5.2?

2008-07-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 15:57 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
 I won't speak on the -plus topic, but as far as upstream is concerned,
 you definitely need to open an RFE SR if you're a paying customer...
 probably won't be super speedy, but better than your bug sitting around
 forever ignored. :)

Heh - I figured 5 months was long enough, even though there are bugs
that have languished for years in upstream's bugzilla... But yes - for
it to get any traction, I would need to be a paying customer... that's
why I figured I'd try their route first, then plus... failing that, I'd
have to look at getting a kmod rpm for pl2303 into either plus or
atrpms...

(FWIW, it wasn't easy getting stuff into upstream when I worked for them
either... it takes time...)

-I

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Re: [CentOS] Getting something into centosplus for 5.2?

2008-07-06 Thread S.Tindall

On Sunday, July 06, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Ian Forde wrote:


I've got a USB to serial adapter that I picked up from Radio 
Shack

earlier this year.  The updated pl2303 driver is already in the
mainstream kernel as per
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429652 but I'm not 
getting
much traction from Red Hat as far as them updating the kernel. 
So every

time there's an updated kernel, I have to rebuild the srpm.


Seems like it would be simpler to get an adapter that work with 
the current/native pl2303 driver.


For the purpose of serial consoles, these two adapters work for 
me under pl2303 without any problems using current/past CentOS5 
kernels:


Tripp-Lite U209-000-R:
 http://www.tripplite.com/products/product.cfm?productID=2430

Cables-To-Go 26886:
 http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat%5fid=101sku=26886

Think they cost about US$15 each at provantage.com.


# uname -rpmi
2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64

# lsmod|grep pl2303

# # Inserted serial-to-USB adapter

# lsusb|grep Tripp-Lite
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 2478:2008 Tripp-Lite U209-000-R Serial 
Port


# lsmod|grep pl2303
pl2303 53317  0
usbserial  67505  1 pl2303

Steve 


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Re: [CentOS] Getting something into centosplus for 5.2?

2008-07-06 Thread Karanbir Singh

S.Tindall wrote:

Tripp-Lite U209-000-R:
 http://www.tripplite.com/products/product.cfm?productID=2430

Cables-To-Go 26886:
 http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat%5fid=101sku=26886

Think they cost about US$15 each at provantage.com.



I've been using these with zero issues ( 14 of them connected to one 
machine ):


drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for ark3116
ark3116 1-1:1.0: ark3116 converter detected
usb 1-1: ark3116 converter now attached to ttyUSB0

about £3/each, totally unbranded from Tottenham Court Road, London :D


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Re: [CentOS] Getting something into centosplus for 5.2?

2008-07-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 00:54 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
 Ian Forde wrote:
  I figure that this is the kind of situation that -plus is meant to
  solve... 
 
 open a request at http://bugs.centos.org/ - thats the *only* way to get 
 stuff into centos_plus, and if there is a patch or a proposed src.rpm 
 for new pkgs, things go faster.

Thanks!  Okay - it's done - ticket number is 2954
(http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2954)

-I

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Re: [CentOS] Getting something into centosplus for 5.2?

2008-07-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 19:39 -0400, S.Tindall wrote:
 Seems like it would be simpler to get an adapter that work with 
 the current/native pl2303 driver.

Yeah... but mine works - with some extra work... didn't want to buy this
type of device twice but...

 For the purpose of serial consoles, these two adapters work for 
 me under pl2303 without any problems using current/past CentOS5 
 kernels:
 
 Tripp-Lite U209-000-R:
   http://www.tripplite.com/products/product.cfm?productID=2430

Just ordered one online, just in case.  Thanks!

-I

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