1. 14 Aug, 2013 3 commits
    • Frank Schäfer's avatar
      pl2303: improve the chip type detection/distinction · 034d1527
      Frank Schäfer authored
      The driver currently knows about 3 different PL2303 chip types:
      The two legacy chip types type_0 and type_1 (PL2303H ?) and the HX
      type.
      The device distinction is currently completely based on the examination
      of the USB descriptors.
      During the last years, Prolific has introduced further PL2303 chips,
      such as the HXD (HX rev. D), TA (which replaced the X/HX chips), SA,
      RA, EA and TB variants.
      Unfortunately, all these new chips are currently detected as HX chips,
      because they are all using the same bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x40 value in the
      USB device descriptor.
      
      At this point it is not clear if these chips are really working with
      the driver, there are just some positive indicators (like device
      manufacturers claiming Linux support for these devices or commit
      8d48fdf6 "correctly handle baudrates above 115200" which should only
      be necessary for newer devices, ...)
      
      For a complete support of all devices, we need to distinguish between
      them, because they differ in several functional aspects, such  as the
      maximum supported baud rate (HXD, TB, EA: 12Mbps, HX, TA: 6Mbps,
      RA: 1Mbps, SA: 115.2kbps), handshaking line support, RS422/485 and
      GPIO ports support (currently not supported by the driver).
      And there might be further differences that we don't know yet.
      
      This patch improves the chip type detection by evaluating the bcdDevice
      value of the device descriptor. The values are taken from the
      datasheets and are safe to use because manufacturers can't change them:
      
      3.00: X/HX, TA
      4.00: HXD, EA, RA, SA
      5.00: TB
      
      The rest of the device descriptors is completely identical, so no
      further distinction is possible this way.
      Anyway, Prolifics "checkChipVersion.exe"-tool is definitely able to
      distinguish for example between the X/HX and the TA chips, so there
      must be a possibility to improve the distinction further...
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrank Schäfer <fschaefer.oss@googlemail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      034d1527
    • Frank Schäfer's avatar
      pl2303: improve the chip type information output on startup · a77a8c23
      Frank Schäfer authored
      The chip type distinction is getting more and more relevant and
      complicating, so always print the chip type.
      Printing a name string is also much better than just printing an
      internal index number.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrank Schäfer <fschaefer.oss@googlemail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      a77a8c23
    • Frank Schäfer's avatar
      pl2303: simplify the else-if contruct for type_1 chips in pl2303_startup() · 73b583af
      Frank Schäfer authored
      There is no need for two else-if constructs for the type_1 chip
      detection in pl2303_startup(), so merge them.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrank Schäfer <fschaefer.oss@googlemail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      73b583af
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