Re: usb serial/visor oops in 2.4.22-pre2

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 12:17:30AM -0400, Justin A wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 23:32, Greg KH wrote:
> > Any reason for not sending this to linux-kernel too?
> 
> hmmm i think you mean the linux-usb list too?

No, you sent to me privately, and not CC lkml.

> > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:03:10PM -0400, Justin A wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 20:57, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:33:40PM -0400, Justin A wrote:
> > > > > basically, pilot-xfer and all don't work anymore, dmesg reports:
> > > > 
> > > > But 2.4.21 works just fine for you?
> > > dunno, I went from 2.4.21-rc6 to 2.2.22-pre2
> > > it sorta worked once or twice in 2.2.21-rc6, but then stopped working.
> > 
> > With the same oops?
> yeah, that or it would just timeout but no oops.
> The thing about the oops is that it happens when it times out after not
> establishing a connecting, it's not that I hit the sync button and it
> immediately oopses.

It oopses when the close() happens, right?  That's a common bug right
now in 2.4 :(

It's fixed in 2.5, if you want to try that.

> > > I had been out of batteries for a while, so I can't remember the last
> > > kernel it worked perfectly with, but I think it was 2.4.21-pre5-ac3
> > > 
> > > If you want I'll test a specific config.
> > > > What USB host driver are you using?
> > > uhci
> > 
> > Can you try usb-uhci and see if it works better?
> I am using usb-uhci.. forgot there was a driver named just 'uhci' :)

Then try uhci, people have found that this sometimes works.

thanks,

greg k-h