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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 PATCH] visor: Always do generic_startup
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 20:08:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041121040856.GB1569@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041121012353.GA4008@himi.org>

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?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-21  4:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-16 15:49 Roger Luethi
2004-11-19 17:44 ` Greg KH
2004-11-21  1:23   ` Simon Fowler
2004-11-21  4:08     ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-11-21  7:15       ` Simon Fowler
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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