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
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
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=101&sku=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
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. - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq