From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Juan Antonio Martinez <jonsito@teleline.es>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ppdev - libieee1284.so conflicts with 2.6.21
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:13:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <468986A7.5030402@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070702154753.56d06f10.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On 07/02/2007 06:47 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:22:09 +0200
> Juan Antonio Martinez <jonsito@teleline.es> wrote:
>
>> I've reported this error to Fedora Bugzilla:
>>
>> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246406
>>
>> In sort: to use libieee1284 I need to disable ppdev usage with
>> kernel 2.6.21. Kernel 2.6.20 works fine
>>
>> [root@drake char]# uname -a
>> Linux drake.micasa.es 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 #1 SMP Tue Jun 12 15:37:31 EDT
>> 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> By doing "echo disallow method ppdev > /etc/ieee1284.conf" everything
>> works fine on both kernels
>>
>> Seems affect several distributions, not Fedora specific:
>> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7438
>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1739643&group_id=29314&atid=395778
>> http://www.digipedia.pl/man/libieee1284.3.html
>>
> Can you test a kernel with this change applied?
>
> --- a/drivers/char/ppdev.c~a
> +++ a/drivers/char/ppdev.c
He's reporting the bug against kernel 2.6.21, which does not have the
patch you are reverting applied.
ppdev hasn't changed in the six months prior to 2.6.21...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-02 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-02 9:22 ppdev - libieee1284.so conflicts with 2.6.21 Juan Antonio Martinez
2007-07-02 22:47 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-02 23:12 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-07-03 0:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-02 23:13 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-07-03 15:57 ` Juan Antonio Martinez
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-07-03 6:16 Juan Antonio Martinez
2007-07-03 21:31 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-07-04 11:58 ` Jonsito
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