Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965299AbXBQQJV (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:09:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965301AbXBQQJV (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:09:21 -0500 Received: from caffeine.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:58140 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965299AbXBQQJU (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:09:20 -0500 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:09:19 -0500 To: Paul Fulghum Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Strange problem with tty layer Message-ID: <20070217160919.GT7584@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <20070124204009.GA7584@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <45B7CDB5.7020909@microgate.com> <20070125151639.GH7582@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070126142041.GD7584@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <45BA1556.8080808@microgate.com> <20070126145608.GK7582@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <45BA190C.5040300@microgate.com> <20070126160842.GM7582@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070129192707.GE7584@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070129192707.GE7584@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1634 Lines: 36 On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:27:07PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > I have run some tests with 8 patches from Linus's 2.6 tree on top of the > 2.6.16.25 along with a bit of debug code in the n_tty.c, which ran > perfectly for 3 days. I now removed the debug code to see if it will > still run perfectly with those 8 patches. The patches I applied in > order are: > > commit 70522e121a521aa09bd0f4e62e1aa68708b798e1 > commit 41c28ff1635e71af072c4711ff5fadd5855d48e7 > commit 1aef821a6b3aeca8c19d06aee012ed9db617d1e3 > commit ee37df7877eeaa16d7761cce64854110a7c17ad9 > commit e1a2509023785bd3199ac068ab80155aeba01265 > commit 817d6d3bceaf34c99f5343820f9b9e6021f0655c > commit 2c3bb20f46709a0adfa7ea408013edbcab945d5a > commit 33b37a33c242542fac2980b8ccd90977388b7a8d > > Hopefully it will stay working, and actually be a solution to my tty > problem in 2.6.16.25. > > 2.6.18.2 (Debian 2.6.18-4) on the other hand was still broken, but I am > not sure which if any of the above commits are not in that version (the > date ranges made me think they all should be, but maybe I got the date > of 2.6.18 wrong, or not all commits in the linux-2.6 tree are actually > part of a given release. I am still figuring out git). 2.6.18 does work, it failed in different ways (overruns on the fifo) which I dealt with by ensuring disk io was synced before testing the serial port. -- Len Sorensen - 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/