From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: kai.engert@gmx.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: only ieee1394 from 2.4.20 works for me
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:53:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040222155331.GG7858@phunnypharm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4038BDC3.9030304@kuix.de>
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:33:39PM +0100, Kai Engert wrote:
> In the last year I have been playing with a variety of combinations of
> ieee1394 controllers, machines, external mass storage devices and linux
> kernel versions. So have some friends of mine.
>
> The only version that works for us is the ieee1394 code that was
> included with kernel version 2.4.20.
>
> (I removed drivers/ieee1394 completely, and replaced it with
> drivers/ieee1394 from 2.4.20)
>
> Using that snapshot, we are able to transfer data to disks and video
> from a camcorder just fine, in all combinations we have tested.
>
> Every other kernel version, both older or newer than 2.4.20, is broken.
> We either see random errors, or writing data to disks stalls
> immediately, or daisy chained devices don't work.
>
> I'm currently using the official Fedora core 1 series kernels, patched
> that way, and it works like a charm.
>
> Please consider to use the 2.4.20 ieee1394 snapshot in future 2.4.x
> releases.
It's pretty strange that I haven't heard of such problems. Maybe you
would consider trying to debug the problem rather than reverting to
source that is several years old (and that I know is broken).
Latest 2.4.x code (that which is in our SVN repo) works fine for me.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-22 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-22 14:33 only ieee1394 from 2.4.20 works for me Kai Engert
2004-02-22 15:53 ` Ben Collins [this message]
2004-02-23 20:32 ` Ben Collins
2004-02-25 14:57 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-02-26 6:12 ` Brian Jackson
2004-02-26 13:14 ` Ben Collins
2004-02-26 19:13 ` Brian Jackson
2004-02-27 1:30 ` Kai Engert
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2004-02-25 22:54 Holger Gruber
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