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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>, dan williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable]  A patch in 2.6.27.9 caused device names to change
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 16:05:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090203000529.GC9467@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090202170238.348af36a@dhcp-100-2-144.bos.redhat.com>

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 05:02:38PM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> This patch:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=blob_plain;f=releases/2.6.27.9/usb-option-add-pantech-cards.patch;hb=HEAD
> 
> replaced my wireless adapter's /dev/ttyACM0 interface with three interfaces:
> /dev/ttyUSB[012]
> 
> That broke my ppp connection scripts. And I have to use /dev/ttyUSB1 to connect,
> not USB0. Also it looks like Network Manager only knows how to use the first
> interface in its auto-connect mode, so people using that also lost their
> connections.

Ugh, that sucks.

That is what is also in upstream, so 2.6.29-rc also fails for you?

Dan, what's with replacing working devices with the cdc-acm driver with
option device ids?  Is there some reason you did this?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-03  0:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-02 22:02 [stable] A patch in 2.6.27.9 caused device names to change Chuck Ebbert
2009-02-03  0:05 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-02-03 14:50   ` Dan Williams
2009-02-03 20:14     ` Chuck Ebbert
2009-02-03 20:43       ` Dan Williams
2009-02-04  0:03     ` Greg KH
2009-02-04  7:28       ` Oliver Neukum
2009-02-04 11:20     ` Oliver Neukum

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