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Re: USB serial package
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- To: Frank Pagliughi <fpagliughi at mindspring dot com>
- Cc: ecos-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:56:19 +0200
- Subject: Re: USB serial package
- References: <48489207.1090301@mindspring.com>
Hi Frank
> The device can work with the standard USB serial device drivers on a
> Windows or Linux host, so there's no need for a custom host driver.
> Included are a micro Linux driver which just associates a USB VID/PID to
> the usbserial driver, and a Windows INF file to do the same for that
> host. The Linux driver requires a 2.6 kernel, while the Windows INF file
> should work with any version since Windows 2000.
Which 2.6 kernel did you test this with? I just tried my slightly out
of date 2.6.26-rc5 and it does not compile. Looking at
http://lxr.linux.no/ there has been some reworking going on in this
area. It might compile with 2.6.25. It would be nice to document what
is know to work.
Thanks
Andrew