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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Chris Vine <chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: pppd and 2.6.25 serial driver
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:23:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080605222355.be299fff.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080601215621.256db193@boulder.homenet>

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 21:56:21 +0100 Chris Vine <chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> Because I have had to resort to using dial-up this weekend, I noticed
> that the serial driver for the 8250/16550 UART in the 2.6.25 kernel does
> not work correctly with ppp-2.4.4. After establishing a dial-up modem
> connection it becomes unresponsive and pppd will exit waiting to
> establish a ppp connection after sending LCP configuration requests.  I
> have tested this with two different dial-up modems and at two different
> dial-up providers, with the 2.6.25.3 and 2.6.25.4 kernels.
> 
> pppd works fine with the 2.6.25 kernel if the serial driver is not used
> (for example if establishing a ppp connection over (in kernel) ATM or
> via an (out of kernel tree) softmodem driver I have.
> 
> The serial driver in 2.6.24.7 works correctly, and the good news is
> that 2.6.26-rc2 also works fine.
> 

Fun.  Presumably that means there's some serial fix which we forgot
to backport.  Or it isn't in 2.6.25.x yet.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-06  5:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-01 20:56 Chris Vine
2008-06-06  5:23 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-06-06 10:09   ` Alan Cox
2008-06-07 14:10     ` Chris Vine
2008-06-07 13:59       ` Alan Cox

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