Re: [2.6 Patch] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset base driver: fix disconnect handling

["Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:32:36 +0200 Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:21:20AM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:07:11 +0200 Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> > 
> > > On 20.04.2006 09:11, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >>This patch fixes a possible Oops in the Siemens Gigaset base driver when
> > > >> the device is unplugged while an ISDN connection is still active, and
> > > >> makes sure that the isdn4linux link level (LL) is properly informed if a
> > > >> connection is broken by the USB cable being unplugged.
> > > >> It also improves some kernel messages generated by the driver.
> > > > 
> > > > It seems to do quite a lot more than that.
> > > > [...] I'd ask you to confirm that this was actually the patch which
> > > > was supposed to go with that changelog.
> > > 
> > > It is. However the changelog was not quite complete. There were a couple
> > > of smaller changes which I neglected to mention. Sorry for that. I'll
> > > try to be more careful when composing future changelogs.
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > > >> --- linux-2.6.17-rc2-work/drivers/isdn/gigaset.orig/bas-gigaset.c	2006-04-19 15:15:49.000000000 +0200
> > > >> +++ local/drivers/isdn/gigaset/bas-gigaset.c	2006-04-19 01:19:41.000000000 +0200
> > > > 
> > > > eek, please don't do that - it confuses my scripts.
> > > > 
> > > > --- linux-2.6.17-rc2-work/drivers/isdn/gigaset/bas-gigaset.c
> > > > +++ linux-2.6.17-rc2-work/drivers/isdn/gigaset/bas-gigaset.c
> > > > 
> > > > is preferred.  There are nice tools around which help with this.
> > > 
> > > I'll be happy to comply with whatever your scripts need, but I don't
> > > quite understand yet what it is that's causing you problems:
> > > The presence of file timestamps?
> > > The timestamp of the second file being earlier than the first one?
> > > The ".orig" suffix in the first path?
> > > The second path starting with "local" instead of "linux-..."?
> > > All of this can be easily corrected; just tell me what's required.
> > 
> > Both filename lines should begin one level above "drivers/".
> > They can be named linux* or a/ and b/ or foo/ and bar/ or whatever.
> > The patch needs to apply using "patch -p1".
> >...
> 
> His patch already was nearly correct.
> 
> The only thing that is wrong is
>   linux-2.6.17-rc2-work/drivers/isdn/gigaset.orig/bas-gigaset.c
>                                             ^^^^^
> If anything else confused Andrew's scripts, he'd better fix his scripts.

Ah, I see, thanks.

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~Randy