According to Prolific, several (unauthorized) cheap and less functional
clones of the PL2303HX chip are in circulation. [1]
I've had the chance to test such a cloned device and it turned out that
it doesn't support any baud rates above 115200 baud (original: 6 Mbaud)
It also doesn't support the divisior based baud rate encoding method,
so no continuous baud rate adjustment is possible.
Nevertheless, these devices have been working (unintentionally) with
the driver up to commit 61fa8d694b ("pl2303: also use the divisor based
baud rate encoding method for baud rates < 115200 with HX chips"), and
this commit broke support for them.
Fortunately, it is pretty simple to distinguish between the original
and the cloned HX chips, so I've added a check and an extra chip type
to keep the clones working.
The same check is used by the latest Prolific Windows driver, so it
should be solid.

[1] http://www.prolific.com.tw/US/ShowProduct.aspx?p_id=225&pcid=41

Signed-off-by: Frank Schäfer <fschaefer.oss@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Pull driver core patches from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big driver core pull request for 3.12-rc1.

  Lots of tiny changes here fixing up the way sysfs attributes are
  created, to try to make drivers simpler, and fix a whole class race
  conditions with creations of device attributes after the device was
  announced to userspace.

  All the various pieces are acked by the different subsystem
  maintainers"

* tag 'driver-core-3.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (119 commits)
  firmware loader: fix pending_fw_head list corruption
  drivers/base/memory.c: introduce help macro to_memory_block
  dynamic debug: line queries failing due to uninitialized local variable
  sysfs: sysfs_create_groups returns a value.
  debugfs: provide debugfs_create_x64() when disabled
  rbd: convert bus code to use bus_groups
  firmware: dcdbas: use binary attribute groups
  sysfs: add sysfs_create/remove_groups for when SYSFS is not enabled
  driver core: add #include <linux/sysfs.h> to core files.
  HID: convert bus code to use dev_groups
  Input: serio: convert bus code to use drv_groups
  Input: gameport: convert bus code to use drv_groups
  driver core: firmware: use __ATTR_RW()
  driver core: core: use DEVICE_ATTR_RO
  driver core: bus: use DRIVER_ATTR_WO()
  driver core: create write-only attribute macros for devices and drivers
  sysfs: create __ATTR_WO()
  driver-core: platform: convert bus code to use dev_groups
  workqueue: convert bus code to use dev_groups
  MEI: convert bus code to use dev_groups
  ...

Clean up the DEVICE_ATTR usage in the USB serial drivers, making them
more obvious as to the permissions that the sysfs files should be.

Note: ftdi_sio.c still has a DEVICE_ATTR() used, that will have to wait
until after 3.12-rc1 comes out when DEVICE_ATTR_WO() shows up in Linus's
tree.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

The drv_attrs field of struct bus_type is going away soon, drv_groups
should be used instead.  This converts the USB serial bus code to use
the correct field.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Fix endianess bugs in parallel-port code which caused corrupt
control-requests to be issued on big-endian machines.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

The write_parport_reg_nonblock() function shouldn't sleep because it's
called with spinlocks held.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

We want these USB fixes in this branch as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

usb-serial-simple uses an unknown stringify macro that make
all drivers being named "stringify(vendor)".

This can be a problem when two drivers have the same (wrong) name:

    kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usb_serial_simple
    kernel: usbserial: USB Serial support registered for stringify(vendor)
    kernel Error: Driver 'stringify(vendor)' is already registered, aborting...
    kernel: usbserial: problem -16 when registering driver stringify(vendor)
    kernel: usbserial: USB Serial deregistering driver stringify(vendor)
    kernel: usbcore: deregistering interface driver usb_serial_simple

Before the fix:

    $ strings drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial-simple.o
    usb_serial_simple
    stringify(vendor)

After the fix:

    $ strings drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial-simple.o
    usb_serial_simple
    funsoft
    flashloader
    vivopay
    moto_modem
    hp4x
    suunto
    siemens_mpi

This patch makes usb-serial-simple use the correct stringify operator.

Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Make sure serial DMA-buffers are allocated separately from containing
structure to prevent potential memory corruption on non-cache-coherent
systems.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>