From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750941AbWDBTA4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Apr 2006 15:00:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751484AbWDBTA4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Apr 2006 15:00:56 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:8602 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750941AbWDBTAz (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Apr 2006 15:00:55 -0400 Subject: Re: Firewire problems, apparently since 2.6.13-rc1 From: Lee Revell To: gene.heskett@verizononline.net Cc: Linux Kernel List In-Reply-To: <200604021418.16263.gene.heskett@verizon.net> References: <200604021418.16263.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:00:49 -0400 Message-Id: <1144004450.11043.1.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 13:18 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > How much trouble will I have if I take the current 2.6.16.1 kernel src > tree, nuke the ieee1394 directory of it, and bring the ieee1394 > directory in from the 2.6.12 tarball? > This has no chance of working. > At 2.6.12, all the firewire stuff I needed to import from my camera, > edit it, and make vcd's or dvd's out of it worked _flawlessly_. Now, > at 2.6.16.1, and apparently since 2.6.13-rc1, kino is broken and must > be killed by the system when it hangs. I figured it would get sorted, > but apparently not. > That's always a bad assumption. Bugs should be reported early and often. > I can recover from backups all the stuff I've overwritten in the last 2 > days trying to make it work. That should make it all work again IF the > ieee1394 stuff was reverted to the 2.6.12 version. Is this feasable at > all? > No - it would be a much better use of your time to put together an actionable bug report. The above is too vague... can you get an strace or GDB backtrace of the hung process, dmesg, etc Lee