From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Buehler Subject: Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]* - mostly resolved Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:05:21 -0500 Message-ID: <47BDA141.70806@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-usb-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Alan Stern Cc: Oliver Pinter , Kernel development list , Andrew Morton , Greg KH , SCSI development list , USB list List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On 2/20/2008 2:29 PM, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: > >> In other words: I don't think that's likely to be practical in the >> present instance. If you have reason to believe otherwise (past >> positive experience with Novell, for instance), I'd be glad to hear >> it. > > Greg KH may be able to help in that respect. I know he's in the CC:, but I'm not sure he's reading this thread, and I'm hesitant to bother people about things out of the blue unless I have reason to expect that it's something they're going to care about. (Just because it's a big deal for me doesn't mean it makes one whit of difference to anyone else, and from what little I've seen on linux-kernel he seems to be somewhat important and fairly busy...) >> Is there any place (aside from maybe the kernel changelog, which >> contains a whole lot - if not several lots - of unrelated >> information) where I could find a list of config-symbol name >> additions, changes, deletions and meaning changes by version or by >> date? That would at least let me build a mapping between the >> symbols in the older config and the ones in the new one, which is >> about where I would have to start. > > Not as far as I know. Then I suppose I'm reduced to browsing the Kconfig files, reading old changelogs, and trying a lot of different configs... thanks anyway. -- Andrew Buehler