Patch for Keyspan USB-serial adapter...

[Randy Zagar]

I don't know if I'm champion material right now, as I'm pretty close to
being over-committed.  I'll have to give this some thought.  I had
guessed that this would be a no-brainer since the device is fully
supported under RH9 (heard this from cow-orker, not confirmed) and
managed to get into 2.5.x..  

If I were to bug the vendor to donate hardware, who gets it and where
does it get sent?

-Randy

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 00:24, Pete Zaitcev wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:39:10 -0600
> Randy Zagar <jrzagar at cactus.org> wrote:
> 
> > The attached patch files include changes to the kernel-2.4.spec file and
> > a patch file from the vendor:
> > 
> >     http://www.keyspan.com/support/linux/files/currentversion/patch/
> 
> I always turn such things down unless there's an overriding reason to
> include them. Every patch, no matter how correct or benign, adds maintenance
> burden. IMHO, it is even more justified in case of Fedora, because of
> Fedora's short release cycle.
> 
> The correct way to handle this patch is
>  1) to identify a champion for the issue. Sometimes it's a user, but
>     often a vendor. If Keyspan cannot be arsed to
>     perform the rest of the steps, users have to step in.
>  2) to file upstream, in this case linux-usb-devel
>  3) track the rest
> 
> I can fill in as a champion for many issues USB, but not all.
> If I had the hardware, I might have.
> 
> The patches appear to be a backport of what is present in 2.6 already,
> so there should not be a problem passing linux-usb-devel and Greg Kroah.
> 
> -- Pete
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