[elrepo] kmod-usb-serial ...

[Clinton Lee Taylor]

Greetings ...

2009/11/23 Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org>:
> 2009/11/23 Clinton Lee Taylor <clintonlee.taylor at gmail.com>:
>
>>  Mmm, downloaded, untared into a folder and ran make ...
>>
>> [devs at devs64 ch341-0.0]$ make
>> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.6.1.el5/build
>> M=/home/devs/temp/kmod/ch341-0.0 modules
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-x86_64'
>>  CC [M]  /home/devs/temp/kmod/ch341-0.0/usb-serial.o
>>  CC [M]  /home/devs/temp/kmod/ch341-0.0/generic.o
>>  CC [M]  /home/devs/temp/kmod/ch341-0.0/bus.o
>>  LD [M]  /home/devs/temp/kmod/ch341-0.0/usbserial.o
>>  CC [M]  /home/devs/temp/kmod/ch341-0.0/ch341.o
>> /home/devs/temp/kmod/ch341-0.0/ch341.c: In function âch341_openâ:
>> /home/devs/temp/kmod/ch341-0.0/ch341.c:329: warning: passing argument
>> 1 of âusb_serial_generic_openâ from incompatible pointer type
>> /home/devs/temp/kmod/ch341-0.0/ch341.c:329: warning: passing argument
>> 2 of âusb_serial_generic_openâ from incompatible pointer type
>> /home/devs/temp/kmod/ch341-0.0/ch341.c:329: error: too many arguments
>> to function âusb_serial_generic_openâ
>
> <snippage>
>
>>  But I seems to be getting an error, could I be so bold has to ask if
>> you might be able to help me ... I'm not a programmer and this goes
>> way over my head ...
>
> I was not sure of your level of experience, so please accept my
> apologies for dropping you "into the deep end". Essentially, what
> needs to be done here is to back-port the ch341.c code from the 2.6.30
> mainline kernel (from where I have obtained it) to the
> 2.6.18-x.y.z.el5 Enterprise Linux 5 kernel. It will require a certain
> degree of knowledge of the "C" language and the Linux kernel.
 No need to apologies, was hoping it would be a quick and easy back
port myself ...

> Currently we, at ELRepo, do not have the time available to do all that
> we would like and, as a consequence, would appreciate the assistance
> of contributors with the above described knowledge who would be
> willing to assist in cases such as this.
 Understood ...

> To all subscribers to this list: Is there anyone who would be willing
> to assist Lee with the above task?
 Pretty please, from the user ...

Thanks
Mailed
LeeT