Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: reserving USB serial ports

2004-05-16 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sun, 16 May 2004 02:25:14 -0500 Al Borchers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You suggested a workaround to this a few months ago, but it was not > the correct solution. I hope that is not the patch you are suggesting. > That patch did not solve the problem and risked out of order writes. It doe

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: reserving USB serial ports

2004-05-16 Thread Al Borchers
Pete -- Pete Zaitcev wrote: Pete Zaitcev wrote: Please rerun your tests on 2.4.26 and report me the results. I worked around this problem for 2.4 already, so it's not an issue anymore. It is still there--see the oops below. Can you tell me what changes were made that might affect this problem? I t

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: reserving USB serial ports

2004-05-16 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sun, 16 May 2004 01:53:19 -0500 Al Borchers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > Please rerun your tests on 2.4.26 and report me the results. I worked > > around this problem for 2.4 already, so it's not an issue anymore. > > It is still there--see the oops below. Can you tell

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: reserving USB serial ports

2004-05-15 Thread Al Borchers
Pete Zaitcev wrote: Please rerun your tests on 2.4.26 and report me the results. I worked around this problem for 2.4 already, so it's not an issue anymore. It is still there--see the oops below. Can you tell me what changes were made that might affect this problem? You can see that in usbserial s

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: reserving USB serial ports

2004-05-14 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Fri, 14 May 2004 15:08:30 -0500 Al Borchers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This late in the 2.4 development cycle, I don't really know. If it > > fixes real bugs, probably. Otherwise I doubt it. > > As we have talked about before, the semaphore in usbserial write leads > to an oops if the se

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: reserving USB serial ports

2004-05-14 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:08:30PM -0500, Al Borchers wrote: > Greg -- > > >>Also, I still plan to backport the USB serial locking from 2.6 to > >>2.4, if you will accept that. > > > >This late in the 2.4 development cycle, I don't really know. If it > >fixes real bugs, probably. Otherwise I dou

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: reserving USB serial ports

2004-05-14 Thread Al Borchers
Greg -- Also, I still plan to backport the USB serial locking from 2.6 to 2.4, if you will accept that. This late in the 2.4 development cycle, I don't really know. If it fixes real bugs, probably. Otherwise I doubt it. As we have talked about before, the semaphore in usbserial write leads to an

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: reserving USB serial ports

2004-05-14 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 02:17:58AM -0500, Al Borchers wrote: > Greg -- > > Greg KH wrote: > >Speaking of which, I'm getting a lot of complaints from users of the > >latest devices that they do not work with the current kernel code. It > >looks like you and Peter are offering up a kernel patch to

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: reserving USB serial ports

2004-05-13 Thread Al Borchers
Greg -- Greg KH wrote: Speaking of which, I'm getting a lot of complaints from users of the latest devices that they do not work with the current kernel code. It looks like you and Peter are offering up a kernel patch to help some people with this. Care to send it to me, as I am getting tired of

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: reserving USB serial ports

2004-05-12 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 08:06:49AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 12:13:23AM -0500, Al Borchers wrote: > > How about io_edgeport and io_ti driver bug fixes and > > enhancements for 2.4--are you still interested in > > such patches? > > Of course, as long as you also provide 2.6 pa

[linux-usb-devel] Re: reserving USB serial ports

2004-05-12 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 12:13:23AM -0500, Al Borchers wrote: > How about io_edgeport and io_ti driver bug fixes and > enhancements for 2.4--are you still interested in > such patches? Of course, as long as you also provide 2.6 patches first :) thanks, greg k-h -

[linux-usb-devel] Re: reserving USB serial ports

2004-05-11 Thread Al Borchers
Greg -- Just read about udev. Exactly the sort of thing we need. Unfortunately not many IO Networks customers are using 2.6 yet. I understand why you wouldn't want to change the 2.4 usbserial to do this sort of thing. How about io_edgeport and io_ti driver bug fixes and enhancements for 2.4--are

[linux-usb-devel] Re: reserving USB serial ports

2004-05-11 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:04:59AM -0500, Al Borchers wrote: > Greg -- > > Several IO Networks EdgePort users have requested the ability > to explicitly assign serial ports to USB serial devices, regardless > of the order the devices are plugged in. Great, tell them to use the 2.6 kernel and udev