Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263952AbTFDTIU (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 15:08:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263900AbTFDTIH (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 15:08:07 -0400 Received: from smtp4.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.22.26]:22676 "EHLO mwinf0501.wanadoo.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263952AbTFDTH7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 15:07:59 -0400 Message-ID: <3EDE4664.1040805@ifrance.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 21:20:04 +0200 From: Yoann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030524 Debian/1.3.1-1.he-1 X-Accept-Language: fr, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vojtech Pavlik Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vojtech@suse.cz, acahalan@cs.uml.edu Subject: Re: another must-fix: major PS/2 mouse problem References: <1054431962.22103.744.camel@cube> <3EDD87FD.6020307@ifrance.com> <20030603232155.1488c02f.akpm@digeo.com> <20030604094737.C5345@ucw.cz> <20030604005302.41f3b0b8.akpm@digeo.com> <20030604100017.A5475@ucw.cz> <20030604011413.16787964.akpm@digeo.com> <20030604104036.A5583@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20030604104036.A5583@ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1314 Lines: 36 Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 01:14:13AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >>>>Has this problem been observed in 2.4 kernels? >>> >>> No, since 2.4 doesn't have the re-sync code in the mouse driver which is >>> triggering in this case. But problems with the machine being flooded >>> with interrupts from the NIC so hard that it actually cannot do anything >>> are quite common. >> >>So is the resync code doing more good than harm? > > > Hard to tell. The people for which it does good don't complain. I didn't reboot my pc yet, so I'm still running a 2.4.20 without any problem with my mouse. but when I will boot on the 2.5.70, what I should do to find where does the bug come from. I'm little but new here, so I never try to locate a bug in a kernel... thanks for your advice Yoann -- Jugglers, like programmers, handle objects which, at first sight, seem complex and difficult to control. Some of them, with time and patience, manage to control one or the other or both at the same time, and thus become aware of what they are doing. - 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/