On 2011-11-03 09:12 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 12:10:50PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Perhaps this driver could print an error message to that effect, then, > > > > instead of remaining completely silent? If EPIPE means "not supported", > > > > I can cook something up. > > > > > > Wait, -EPIPE is odd, that usually means the driver messed up in trying > > > to send a message to the wrong endpoint. Yet this is going through the > > > control endpoint, which really can't fail. > > > > -EPIPE also means that the control endpoint doesn't recognize the > > command it received, which seems quite likely in this case. [...] > So, this makes sense, this device has no idea how to create a BREAK > command, not much we can do about it, especially given the total lack of > documentation from Prolific for this chipset. > > Again, I recommend buying a new device. I agree that is the most prudent course. sysrq-trigger isn't really an option because the situations where I want to send sysrq commands over the serial port are usually the same situations where logging into the machine is impossible. Nevertheless, I'll cook a patch to add an error message, because silently doing nothing is not really helpful. Thanks, -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/) -- 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
