Re: Sorry, Patch wrong (was: patch "USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add Id for Physik Instrumente E-870" added to usb-testing)

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On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 01:49:02PM +0200, Teichmann, Martin wrote:
> Dear Greg, dear Johan, dear list,
> 
> I'm very sorry I was a bit quick in sending you a patch for the PI
> E-870 device, because it's actually wrong. Everything seemed to work
> fine, until I realized that once in a while two characters were
> missing. Checking dmesg I realized error messages had piled up. It
> turns out, the device is not compatible with the ftdi_sio driver in
> the end. I hope this can be undone...

No worries, I just sent a revert patch to Greg.

> The device, however works with a usb-serial-simple driver.
> Unfortunately, it is not as easy as for the E-870 to supply a patch,
> as usb-serial-simple does not just contain a list of VID and PIDs, but
> actually creates a new entry somewhere in /sys/bus for each vendor. I
> would like to send in patch for this later, but this time properly
> tested...

Try first to determine what chip this really is (e.g. by opening the
device). Chances are there's already a driver for it. Full "lsusb -v"
might also give some clues.

Thanks,
Johan
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