More detail: Re: visor.ko freezes on dlpsh list

More detail: Re: visor.ko freezes on dlpsh list

[bchimiak]

It is the visor.[ch] of vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 that does not work.
I recompiled a linux-2.6.9 kernel and the pilot-xfer, dlpsh, and kpilot work
now.  It is the visor.[ch] in vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 that is the culprit.

-----Forwarded Message-----
From: bchimiak@earthlink.net
Sent: Dec 15, 2004 5:47 AM
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: visor.ko freezes on dlpsh list

You asked: What kernel version are you using?
vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3,
but the original Fedora Core 3 did not work either.
It was suggested to remove the visor diffs from the ac10 patch and that would work.
I may try building linux-2.6.9 and see how that works.

Bill Chimiak

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Sent: Dec 13, 2004 11:14 PM
To: Bill Chimiak <bchimiak@earthlink.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: visor.ko freezes on dlpsh list

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 09:19:52PM -0500, Bill Chimiak wrote:
> Summary: Handspring visor does not  fully sync with kpilot or jpilot
> or with pilot-xfer.
> With dlpsh, the user, and df work but it freezes with a ls command
> after completing about 75% to 80% of the actually listing.
What kernel version are you using?
thanks,
greg k-h

Re: More detail: Re: visor.ko freezes on dlpsh list

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2004-12-16 at 16:43, bchimiak@earthlink.net wrote:
> It is the visor.[ch] of vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 that does not work.
> I recompiled a linux-2.6.9 kernel and the pilot-xfer, dlpsh, and kpilot work
> now.  It is the visor.[ch] in vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 that is the culprit.

That would make sense. Vanilla 2.6.9 has the visor denial of service
hole (and a mass of other holes but none of the others touch visor). The
earlier fix had a bug in it and is in 681_FC3, the full fix is in the
later kernels and in current 2.6.9-ac and should work fine.

Re: More detail: Re: visor.ko freezes on dlpsh list

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 08:43:33AM -0800, bchimiak@earthlink.net wrote:
> It is the visor.[ch] of vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 that does not work.
> I recompiled a linux-2.6.9 kernel and the pilot-xfer, dlpsh, and kpilot work
> now.  It is the visor.[ch] in vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 that is the culprit.

Yes, that makes sense (see what Alan said.)  If you want to have fixes
for this driver, either use the 2.6.10-rc3 kernel, or the 2.6.9-ac tree.

thanks,

greg k-h