On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:51:34PM -0700, nirinA raseliarison wrote: > hello there, > i have an usb modem zte ev-do that i used with kernel from 2.6.29 up to 3.5. > since 3.5, i got the following message: > > [77496.664090] usb 5-2: udev 10, busnum 5, minor = 521 > [77496.664097] usb 5-2: New USB device found, idVendor=19d2, idProduct=ffff > [77496.664102] usb 5-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 > [77496.664107] usb 5-2: Product: ZTE CDMA Tech > [77496.664112] usb 5-2: Manufacturer: ZTE, Incorporated > [77496.664226] usb 5-2: usb_probe_device > [77496.664232] usb 5-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > [77496.667119] usb 5-2: adding 5-2:1.0 (config #1, interface 0) > [77496.670161] usbserial_generic 5-2:1.0: usb_probe_interface > [77496.670169] usbserial_generic 5-2:1.0: usb_probe_interface - got id > [77496.670177] usbserial_generic 5-2:1.0: The "generic" usb-serial driver is only for testing and > one-off prototypes. > [77496.670182] usbserial_generic 5-2:1.0: Tell linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to add your device to a > proper driver. > [77496.670186] usbserial_generic 5-2:1.0: generic converter detected > [77496.670276] usb 5-2: generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0 > > i would be nice to have a driver for this device in the kernel. > the device is shipped with sources to build its modules. if i understand > correctly thet are released under GPL, so i attached them below. > this is portion of Makefile i used: > > obj-m := ztemt.o > ztemt-objs := usb-serial.o bus.o generic.o ezusb.o zte_ev.o Ick, that's not really the "proper" way to support this device, but I can take the file below and write a real driver for it. Can you test a patch if I create it? Also, where did you find this patch and .c file? I'd like to give credit to the proper developers who first wrote it. And I never thought that this message would cause this kind of code to come out of the woodwork, thanks so much for sending it in. 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