Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]* - mostly resolved

2008-02-21 Thread Andrew Buehler
On 2/21/2008 12:17 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:36:23AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: [Greg KH] I know he's in the CC:, but I'm not sure he's reading this thread, and I'm hesitant to bother people about things out of the blue unless I

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]* - mostly resolved

2008-02-21 Thread Andrew Buehler
On 2/20/2008 2:29 PM, Alan Stern wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: In other words: I don't think that's likely to be practical in the present instance. If you have reason to believe otherwise (past positive experience with Novell, for instance), I'd be glad to hear it. Greg

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]* - mostly resolved

2008-02-21 Thread Andrew Buehler
On 2/20/2008 2:29 PM, Alan Stern wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: In other words: I don't think that's likely to be practical in the present instance. If you have reason to believe otherwise (past positive experience with Novell, for instance), I'd be glad to hear it. Greg

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]* - mostly resolved

2008-02-21 Thread Andrew Buehler
On 2/21/2008 12:17 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:36:23AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: [Greg KH] I know he's in the CC:, but I'm not sure he's reading this thread, and I'm hesitant to bother people about things out of the blue unless I

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]* - mostly resolved

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew Buehler
On 2/20/2008 12:15 PM, Alan Stern wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: Hmm. One thing which just sprang to mind, in the stab-in-the-dark category: in 2.6.24.2, launching the program on some machines gave warnings along the lines of "this program is using a deprecated

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]* - mostly resolved

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew Buehler
: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: With those two problems out of the way, what is left is the hard-drive issue, and that is also halfway fixed by enabling ACPI. Specifically, it is "fixed" in that the kernel sees the hard drive and I can mount it, but it is not fixed in that the

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]* - mostly resolved

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew Buehler
: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: With those two problems out of the way, what is left is the hard-drive issue, and that is also halfway fixed by enabling ACPI. Specifically, it is fixed in that the kernel sees the hard drive and I can mount it, but it is not fixed in that the program we need

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]* - mostly resolved

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew Buehler
On 2/20/2008 12:15 PM, Alan Stern wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: Hmm. One thing which just sprang to mind, in the stab-in-the-dark category: in 2.6.24.2, launching the program on some machines gave warnings along the lines of this program is using a deprecated ioctl

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]* - mostly resolved

2008-02-19 Thread Andrew Buehler
On 2/16/2008 10:35 PM, Alan Stern wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: Until this thread, I was not even aware that ACPI was related to USB; I had largely conflated it with a similar acronym which I think is related to power management and which I can suddenly not even find

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]* - mostly resolved

2008-02-19 Thread Andrew Buehler
On 2/16/2008 10:35 PM, Alan Stern wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: Until this thread, I was not even aware that ACPI was related to USB; I had largely conflated it with a similar acronym which I think is related to power management and which I can suddenly not even find

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]*

2008-02-17 Thread Andrew Buehler
On 2/16/2008 10:35 PM, Alan Stern wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: Messages sent to my address directly are explicitly not filtered into the folders I have set up for various mailing lists, so that if someone does send me a "heads up" reply for a specific topic

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]*

2008-02-17 Thread Andrew Buehler
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Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]*

2008-02-17 Thread Andrew Buehler
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Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]*

2008-02-17 Thread Andrew Buehler
On 2/16/2008 10:35 PM, Alan Stern wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: Messages sent to my address directly are explicitly not filtered into the folders I have set up for various mailing lists, so that if someone does send me a heads up reply for a specific topic on a list

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]*

2008-02-16 Thread Andrew Buehler
On 2/16/2008 6:11 PM, Alan Stern wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: For another, getting two copies of a message is no big deal -- I disagree. Everyone has his own taste. Obviously there's no world-wide consensus, possibly because different people have different workflow

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]*

2008-02-16 Thread Andrew Buehler
to avoid it and still make sure all relevant people receive the message.) On 2/16/2008 10:20 AM, Alan Stern wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Oliver Pinter wrote: On 2/15/08, Andrew Buehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In my workplace, I use a customized version of Novell's ZENworks imaging b

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]*

2008-02-16 Thread Andrew Buehler
to avoid it and still make sure all relevant people receive the message.) On 2/16/2008 10:20 AM, Alan Stern wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Oliver Pinter wrote: On 2/15/08, Andrew Buehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my workplace, I use a customized version of Novell's ZENworks imaging boot CD

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]*

2008-02-16 Thread Andrew Buehler
On 2/16/2008 6:11 PM, Alan Stern wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: For another, getting two copies of a message is no big deal -- I disagree. Everyone has his own taste. Obviously there's no world-wide consensus, possibly because different people have different workflow

USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]*

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Buehler
that I have not provided enough information to address the problem. Please let me know what would be necessary, and I will do my best to provide it. Additionally, if I have made any major flubs (of etiquette or otherwise), please do point them out so that I can avoid them in future. -- Andrew Buehler

USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]*

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Buehler
that I have not provided enough information to address the problem. Please let me know what would be necessary, and I will do my best to provide it. Additionally, if I have made any major flubs (of etiquette or otherwise), please do point them out so that I can avoid them in future. -- Andrew Buehler