From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>, dan williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] A patch in 2.6.27.9 caused device names to change
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 16:05:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090203000529.GC9467@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090202170238.348af36a@dhcp-100-2-144.bos.redhat.com>
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 05:02:38PM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> This patch:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=blob_plain;f=releases/2.6.27.9/usb-option-add-pantech-cards.patch;hb=HEAD
>
> replaced my wireless adapter's /dev/ttyACM0 interface with three interfaces:
> /dev/ttyUSB[012]
>
> That broke my ppp connection scripts. And I have to use /dev/ttyUSB1 to connect,
> not USB0. Also it looks like Network Manager only knows how to use the first
> interface in its auto-connect mode, so people using that also lost their
> connections.
Ugh, that sucks.
That is what is also in upstream, so 2.6.29-rc also fails for you?
Dan, what's with replacing working devices with the cdc-acm driver with
option device ids? Is there some reason you did this?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-03 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-02 22:02 [stable] A patch in 2.6.27.9 caused device names to change Chuck Ebbert
2009-02-03 0:05 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-02-03 14:50 ` Dan Williams
2009-02-03 20:14 ` Chuck Ebbert
2009-02-03 20:43 ` Dan Williams
2009-02-04 0:03 ` Greg KH
2009-02-04 7:28 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-02-04 11:20 ` Oliver Neukum
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