Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757911AbXFUQdi (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:33:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756951AbXFUQd0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:33:26 -0400 Received: from dsl081-033-126.lax1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.33.126]:52626 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756682AbXFUQdZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:33:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:33:32 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Randy Dunlap cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: long-term regression In-Reply-To: <20070621083659.dabf3a22.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Message-ID: References: <20070621052807.cc64605d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070621083659.dabf3a22.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1530 Lines: 42 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 - 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/