Re: long-term regression

[david@lang.hm]

due to the size the files are posted at http://linux.lang.hm/linux

let me know what else I can send to help.

David Lang

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:40:28 -0700
> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> To: david@lang.hm
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
>     linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: long-term regression
>
> 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?
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