Subject: [PATCH 4 of 8] USB ipaq driver bugfix
From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]

Hi,

Here's a patch against 2.4.19-pre3 for the USB ipaq driver that fixes a
bug where the connection could get messed up.  The patch is by Ganesh
Varadarajan.

thanks,

greg k-h

diff -Nru a/drivers/usb/serial/ipaq.c b/drivers/usb/serial/ipaq.c
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/ipaq.c	Wed Mar 13 10:29:11 2002
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ipaq.c	Wed Mar 13 10:29:11 2002
@@ -9,6 +9,16 @@
  *	the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  *	(at your option) any later version.
  *
+ * (8/3/2002) ganesh
+ * 	The ipaq sometimes emits a '\0' before the CLIENT string. At this
+ * 	point of time, the ppp ldisc is not yet attached to the tty, so
+ * 	n_tty echoes "^ " to the ipaq, which messes up the chat. In 2.5.6-pre2
+ * 	this causes a panic because echo_char() tries to sleep in interrupt
+ * 	context.
+ * 	The fix is to tell the upper layers that this is a raw device so that
+ * 	echoing is suppressed. Thanks to Lyle Lindholm for a detailed bug
+ * 	report.
+ *
  * (25/2/2002) ganesh
  * 	Added support for the HP Jornada 548 and 568. Completely untested.
  * 	Thanks to info from Heath Robinson and Arieh Davidoff.
@@ -154,6 +164,8 @@
 		 */
 
 		port->tty->low_latency = 1;
+		port->tty->raw = 1;
+		port->tty->real_raw = 1;
 
 		/*
 		 * Lose the small buffers usbserial provides. Make larger ones.