Re: [PATCH] usb: serial: update CH34x driver in drivers/usb/serial

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jun 23 2016 - 22:39:38 EST


On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 06:47:54PM -0700, tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The old driver for usb-serial chips ch34x which submitted by kernel volunteer
> Frank A Kingswood <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> is too old to use, and the
> driver has bugs when receiving chracters, thus after communicating with the author
> we decide to revoke the old driver ch341.c and submit the new one ch34x.c.
>
> Add the relevant details to Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt.
> Change the relevant files Kconfig and Makefile in drivers/usb/serial.
>
> Signed-off-by: WCH Tech Group <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt | 27 +-
> drivers/usb/serial/Kconfig | 8 +-
> drivers/usb/serial/Makefile | 2 +-
> drivers/usb/serial/ch341.c | 580 -----------------------
> drivers/usb/serial/ch34x.c | 985 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 5 files changed, 1008 insertions(+), 594 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 drivers/usb/serial/ch341.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/usb/serial/ch34x.c
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt b/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt
> index 349f310..c21437b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -INTRODUCTION
> +ïINTRODUCTION

You also don't need to change this line :)