From: simon@himi.org (Simon Fowler)
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 PATCH] visor: Always do generic_startup
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 18:15:30 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041121071530.GA5586@himi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041121040856.GB1569@kroah.com>
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On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 08:08:56PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 12:23:53PM +1100, Simon Fowler wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:44:05AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 04:49:43PM +0100, Roger Luethi wrote:
> > > > generic_startup in visor.c was not called for some hardware, resulting
> > > > in attempts to access memory that had never been allocated, which in
> > > > turn caused the problem several people reported with recent (2.6.10ish)
> > > > kernels.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
> > >
> > > Thanks for finding this.
> > >
> > > Applied.
> > >
> > This patch fixes the oops, but after applying it I can no longer
> > sync my palm 5 - it starts, but part way through the connection is
> > lost.
>
> Can you enable debugging in the visor driver (either through the
> modprobe paramater, or through the /sys/module/paramater/debug file, and
> send it to us?
>
I've attached the gzipped log file, from the point it the new USB
device is registered to the point the device nodes are deleted by
udev.
Simon
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-21 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-16 15:49 [2.6 PATCH] visor: Always do generic_startup Roger Luethi
2004-11-19 17:44 ` Greg KH
2004-11-21 1:23 ` Simon Fowler
2004-11-21 4:08 ` Greg KH
2004-11-21 7:15 ` Simon Fowler [this message]
2004-11-22 18:54 ` Greg KH
2004-11-23 19:36 ` [2.6 PATCH] visor: Don't count outstanding URBs twice Roger Luethi
2004-11-23 19:45 ` Greg KH
2004-11-23 20:30 ` Roger Luethi
2004-11-24 0:40 ` Simon Fowler
2004-11-24 23:25 ` Greg KH
2004-11-25 16:16 ` [2.6 PATCH] visor: Make URB limit error more visible Roger Luethi
2004-11-25 18:06 ` Greg KH
2004-11-28 17:11 ` Alan Cox
2004-11-30 0:06 ` Greg KH
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