Re: long-term regression

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

david@lang.hm wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:36:59 -0700
> > From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> > To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: david@lang.hm, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
> >     linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: long-term regression
> >
> > 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.
>
> here is the dmesg from 2.6.22-rc4 and kern.log showing 2.6.22.-rc4 and 
> 2.6.180rc3
>
> the printer not working is the parallel port.

This email didn't show up on lkml or linux-usb-devel due to size limits (it was 900+ KB).

David, please send your working 2.6.18 config file.

Can you post the kernel log files on the web somewhere?

--
~Randy
*** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/