CP2101 Driver

[Amit Kucheria]

On 09 Jul 05, Tim Gardner wrote:
> David Potts wrote:
> > Thank you for taking the time to read this request.  I am trying to  
> > figure out what I would need to do to get our current products added  
> > to the CP2101 driver that is included with the latest version of  
> > Ubuntu.  We have tested the current driver with our hardware and it  
> > does operate correctly, but it does need to be updated to support our  
> > device ID's.   Thus if this is possible, or if someone could help by  
> > pointing me in the right direction to update the CP2101.c file it  
> > would be much appreciated.  I can be contacted at this email address.
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > David Potts
> > Principal Design Engineer
> > Arkham Technology
> > 
> > 
> > Required changes to the CP2101.c file :
> > Add the following two lines to the definition of id_table (current  
> > list of devices supported) :
> > 
> > 	{ USB_DEVICE(0x10C4, 0x1101) }, /* Arkham Technology DS101 Bus  
> > Monitor */
> > 	{ USB_DEVICE(0x10C4, 0x1601) }, /* Arkham Technology DS101 Adaptor */
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> David - we prefer that these patches go upstream first. I'd create a
> patch against Linus' current tree at
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git,
> then email the author (which appears to be Craig Shelley
> craig at microtron.org.uk) and Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at suse.de (the USB
> sub-system maintainer)
> 
> See Documentation/SubmittingPatches from the kernel tree for details.

As sent by me this time[1]. Once this patch is accepted, please ping us
back and we'll make sure it is in Ubuntu.

Regards,
Amit


[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/6/106

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