dann frazier wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 03:38:20PM +0100, Boris Andratzek wrote: >> Hello members of the debian kernel list, >> >> >> I'm new to this and hope I don't misuse the list in any way. > >> Doing the update from debian sarge to etch on my server I ran into the >> bug documented here: bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7177 >> I already made some comments there. I tried to contact the maintainer of >> the DAC960 driver but as far as I found out, Leonard N. Zubkoff >> unfortunatly died in a helicopter crash. >> >> Without being impious, I want to ask if anybody can give me an idea of >> how this thing will go on. Is there anybody new doing the maintaining? > > hey Boris, > That's a question for upstream - the upstream list is here: > http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-scsi > >> Is there hope for a fix? Where can I find more information? Can I do >> anything to help (testing, logging)? > > I think the most useful information you could add to 7177 is to > identify the specific change that broke it. The original reporter > claims that this was broken after 2.6.11 - can you verify that 2.6.11 > worked and 2.6.12 is broken? > > If you can do that, then you can try to use git bisect to identify > the commit that changed this behavior. Since this is pre-2.6.12, you > probably need to use the bitkeeper import git tree: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git > > Instructions for using git bisect can be found here: > http://dannf.org/bloggf/tech/git-bisect.html > > And please contact us when there is an upstream fix so that we can > include it in Debian. >
Hej Dann, thanks for your reply, I'll try to contact the upstream list! And I will spend some time to discover what git can do.... In the meanwhile I got mail from Andy, who told me he hat a working system but I cannot confirm until now. More in the answer to him in this thread. Boris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
