On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 01:58:52PM -0400, Sylvain Lamontagne wrote: > Hi Mr Piel, > Last october you sent a patch to correctly identify the GPS module on > the Dell mini 1010. > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/usb/2.6/2.6.32-rc3/usb-cp210x-add-support-for-the-dw700-uart.patch > > I own a Dell Mini 1010 and would like to know if the status change on > this. Because while sending the patch, you also wrote "(I haven't > managed to use the GPS under > Linux yet, though)" > > I would like to have the GPS module to work and I would be willing to > work on developing the driver if it's not a too big task. I have > already wrote some driver in the past but they were mostly character > device never USB... it was for academic learning. I have some book > that can surely help me, but if someone could guide me in the process > I would really appreciated this. You should not need any other driver, just read from the device through the usb-serial port that userspace sees to get the GPS information. Have you tried that? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
