2.4.x 2.5.x wishlist

2.4.x 2.5.x wishlist

[joeja]

Well now that 2.5 is open I thought I'd add this to the wish list.  

1) I wish that ECC/ECP/IEEE 1294 would be fixed in 2.4 and 2.5 and work right as this is causing problems in some webcams that worked in 2.2.x but now no longer work in 2.4.  And since just about every major distribution is shipping 2.4 it makes it a little harder to use a 2.2 kernel if you get a dsitro as many are tuned to 2.4 and often don't work right with 2.2.  This actually killed my web cam somewhere around 2.4.10~13.14?

2) The nasty VIA ide-floppy / iomega zip 100 drive bugs would get fixed as well as this prevents people from using their zip drives under Linux   and forces them to use them under another OS.

just my .02 cents

Re: 2.4.x 2.5.x wishlist

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 joeja@mindspring.com wrote:

> 2) The nasty VIA ide-floppy / iomega zip 100 drive bugs would get fixed
> as well as this prevents people from using their zip drives under Linux
> and forces them to use them under another OS.

Last I checked, mine worked fine. Details please?

Dave.

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Re: 2.4.x 2.5.x wishlist

[Paul Bristow]

joeja@mindspring.com wrote:

> Well now that 2.5 is open I thought I'd add this to the wish list.  
> 
> 1) I wish that ECC/ECP/IEEE 1294 would be fixed in 2.4 and 2.5 and work right as this is causing problems in some webcams that worked in 2.2.x but now no longer work in 2.4.  And since just about every major distribution is shipping 2.4 it makes it a little harder to use a 2.2 kernel if you get a dsitro as many are tuned to 2.4 and often don't work right with 2.2.  This actually killed my web cam somewhere around 2.4.10~13.14?
> 
> 2) The nasty VIA ide-floppy / iomega zip 100 drive bugs would get fixed as well as this prevents people from using their zip drives under Linux   and forces them to use them under another OS.


I have a patch out, and am trying to convince Marcelo to include it.  I 
*DO* know about this as I get lots of the mail complaining about it.  If 
you are suffering, please try with the patch

Marcelo, can we put the ide-floppy patch in the next 2.4.17-pre?  I'll 
happily send you the patch again.

 
> just my .02 cents

and my 0.02 euros :-)



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Re: 2.4.x 2.5.x wishlist

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Paul Bristow wrote:

> joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> > Well now that 2.5 is open I thought I'd add this to the wish list.  
> > 
> > 1) I wish that ECC/ECP/IEEE 1294 would be fixed in 2.4 and 2.5 and work right as this is causing problems in some webcams that worked in 2.2.x but now no longer work in 2.4.  And since just about every major distribution is shipping 2.4 it makes it a little harder to use a 2.2 kernel if you get a dsitro as many are tuned to 2.4 and often don't work right with 2.2.  This actually killed my web cam somewhere around 2.4.10~13.14?
> > 
> > 2) The nasty VIA ide-floppy / iomega zip 100 drive bugs would get fixed as well as this prevents people from using their zip drives under Linux   and forces them to use them under another OS.
> 
> 
> I have a patch out, and am trying to convince Marcelo to include it.  I 
> *DO* know about this as I get lots of the mail complaining about it.  If 
> you are suffering, please try with the patch
> 
> Marcelo, can we put the ide-floppy patch in the next 2.4.17-pre?  I'll 
> happily send you the patch again.

Send it again together with a full description of what the patch
changes, please.

Re: 2.4.x 2.5.x wishlist

[Paul Bristow]

joeja@mindspring.com wrote:

> I tried the patch on your site against 2.4.14, it helped, system still hung... 


Damn.  Lost interrupt is outside my code.  This lives in the ide driver 
proper and is probably relative toi the via82cxxx specific controller 
code that is deep voodoo from Andre.  I guess Andre/Jens have not found 
all the *funnies* in the buggy chipset.


> hdd lost interrupt
> 
> is there buffereing done in data transfers to disks?  


Yes, but at the FS level, not in clever driver level stuff.


> I.E. if I cp to a drive is the data transfered right away or is there a delay?
> 
> J
> 
> 
>>I have a patch out, and am trying to convince Marcelo to include it.  I 
>>*DO* know about this as I get lots of the mail complaining about it.  > If 
>>you are suffering, please try with the patch
>>
> 


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Re: 2.4.x 2.5.x wishlist

[Andre Hedrick]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Paul Bristow wrote:

> joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> > I tried the patch on your site against 2.4.14, it helped, system still hung... 
> 
> 
> Damn.  Lost interrupt is outside my code.  This lives in the ide driver 
> proper and is probably relative toi the via82cxxx specific controller 
> code that is deep voodoo from Andre.  I guess Andre/Jens have not found 
> all the *funnies* in the buggy chipset.

Paul I have to finish a packet_taskfile_ioctl for seeing if we have to
correct data-transport rules in place.  For the longest time it has been a
pig in a poke.  The ATAPI diagnostics toolkit will be significantly
tougher but still doable.

Regards,

Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development

Re: 2.4.x 2.5.x wishlist

[Joe]

Andre Hedrick wrote:

> > Damn.  Lost interrupt is outside my code.  This lives in the ide driver
> > proper and is probably relative toi the via82cxxx specific controller
> > code that is deep voodoo from Andre.  I guess Andre/Jens have not found
> > all the *funnies* in the buggy chipset.
>
> Paul I have to finish a packet_taskfile_ioctl for seeing if we have to
> correct data-transport rules in place.  For the longest time it has been a
> pig in a poke.  The ATAPI diagnostics toolkit will be significantly
> tougher but still doable.

that's why I am hoping to get it into the wish list for 2.5...