Re: visor module and Palm Zire 71 problem.

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 08:08:17PM +0200, Paco Ros wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I bought one of these nice Palm handhelds with integrated camera.
> I was running 2.4.20 kernel at that time and I modified the following files:
> - drivers/usb/serial/visor.h
>  added #define PALM_ZIRE71_ID			0x0060
> 
> - drivers/usb/serial/visor.c
>  added id_table and id_table_combined definitions.
> 
> You have both modified from 2.4.20 files here:
> http://bulmalug.net/~pacoros/articulos/visor.c
> http://bulmalug.net/~pacoros/articulos/visor.h

This device has been supported for a while now, just upgrade your kernel
please.

> They were working fine with pilot-link software.
> 
> Some weeks ago I compiled a 2.4.22-ac1 kernel and I saw that a new version of visor was released.
> I haven't been able to make my Zire 71 work with this kernel version.
> 
> The trick of adding PALM_ZIRE71_ID definition does not work anymore
> and I get a Oops! when the module tries to be removed.  Here is the
> log:

This device should just work with this kernel, the driver does not need
to be modified.

> I've been googling and looking for visor project and seems to be
> completely integrated in kernel tree and no news or movement is
> appreciated at usbvisor web site.

The usbvisor web site is dead as the maintainer for it has disappeared.
The kernel driver is kept quite up to date.

thanks,

greg k-h
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