When using the visor.ko module in order to synchronize the PDA using jpilot or similar applications, the following kernel error is generated when udev attempts to open the USB serial converter module visor.ko: visor: probe of 6-1:1.0 failed with error -5 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Connect the PDA to your Linux box 2.Press the HotSync Button 3. Actual Results: udev hotplugging fails with error -5 in the visor.ko module Expected Results: A /dev/ttyUSB device node should be created by udev to be used by the HotSync protocol The bug is known in the LKML and I have also found a patch which fixes the problem. I would really appreciate to add that patch to gentoo-sources, because without it PALM PDA users can no longer synchronize their PDAs starting from >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.24 on. The patch also affects only a single line of code in the visor.ko module and is therefore rather unlikely to create any regressions.
Created attachment 147948 [details, diff] Fixes this bug
CORRECTION: This bug only applies to SONY Clie PDAs (from what I could observe); it seems *not* to apply to other Palm PDA devices such as the Palm Z 22. It might therefore be better not to apply this patch generally, but only for SONY Clie devices. I'm thus closing this bug, and will post the patch to the Forums for Clie users instead.
