Re: long-term regression

[david@lang.hm]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:28:07 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > > On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:57:55 -0700 (PDT) david@lang.hm wrote:
> > > I haven't had time to bisect this, but I'm having a problem on a AMD64
> > > gentoo system where the printer doesn't work with recent kernels.
> > >
> > > 2.6.18-rc3 worked
> > > 2.6.21.1 doesn't
> > > 2.6.22-rc4 doesn't
> > >
> > > unfortunantly the system is gooted on 2.6.18 at the moment and I'm out of
> > > town so my ability to test is limited I can provide the 2.6.22-rc4
> > > (attached) and 2.6.18-rc3 configs.
> > >
> > > dmesg appears to show the port being detected, but writes to the port
> > > under newer kernels appear to complete, but no data gets to the printer.
> > >
> > > any suggestions other then doing the large bisect?
> >
> > That would be good, thanks.  Please be sure to cc linux-usb-devel on
> > the results.
>
> OK, I'm curious about how someone deduced that this is a problem
> with a USB printer vs. parallel port printer since the config file has:
>
> CONFIG_PRINTER=y
> CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=y
>
> The kernel boot log should probably be posted also.

it's a parallel port printer, not a usb printer. when I get home from 
usenix I'll reboot into a new kernel and post the boot logs for both 
configs.

David Lang
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