On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 03:45:39PM -0700, Ian Forde wrote: > I've got a USB to serial adapter that I picked up from Radio Shack > earlier this year. The updated pl2303 driver is already in the > mainstream kernel as per > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429652 but I'm not getting > much traction from Red Hat as far as them updating the kernel. So every > time there's an updated kernel, I have to rebuild the srpm. > > I figure that this is the kind of situation that -plus is meant to > solve... I've already had to switch one of my boxes over to plus today > given that the video4linux srpm (from atrpms) won't rebuild easily on > 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5, and I'm thinking that having both on plus with > everything I need in them would make it a lot easier... > > (There's already precedent here... I found > linux-2.6.18-bz443853_powernow_null_deref.patch and > linux-2.6.18-bz444759_hi_iowait.patch in the srpm...) > > Thanks for reading... > I won't speak on the -plus topic, but as far as upstream is concerned, you definitely need to open an RFE SR if you're a paying customer... probably won't be super speedy, but better than your bug sitting around forever ignored. :) Ray