Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754299AbXFYWjS (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:39:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752020AbXFYWjJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:39:09 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:38196 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751851AbXFYWjJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:39:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4680445C.8000703@oracle.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:40:28 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: david@lang.hm CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: long-term regression References: <20070621052807.cc64605d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070621083659.dabf3a22.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1256; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2139 Lines: 61 david@lang.hm wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:36:59 -0700 >> From: Randy Dunlap >> To: Andrew Morton >> 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/