On Friday 24 October 2014 7:22:24 AM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Fernando Rodriguez > <frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com> wrote: > > On Monday 20 October 2014 10:59:52 AM Michael Mattes wrote: > >> And that is because of the additional features? :-D > > > > I've had issues with the additional features too. Some of the USB serial > > devices don't get detected. But this is fixed by disabling the Gentoo specific > > options. I may be wrong but I think they're just configuration patches, not the > > actual kernel sources. I do use the vanilla kernel because at one point I > > needed features from a version that wasn't yet on portage. > > > > How long ago was this? It looks like gentoo-sources just tracks the > stable kernel, and so does vanilla-sources. If you want mainline you > need git-sources, assuming you aren't just pulling them from git > yourself (an option you of-course have with vanilla too). > > The config items in the gentoo-sources are really just master switches > to turn on everything needed by openrc/systemd/etc - they're > conveniences just like meta-packages in portage. > > Now, gentoo-sources DOES include additional patches, and some of them > are features. It is of course entirely possible that they could cause > problems, but I imagine that they're selected fairly carefully. > > The general philosophy mixed with some very dated info can be found at: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches/ > > -- > Rich >
Not that long ago maybe 2-3 months, it may be very close behind upstream but at that time it was. It is the master switch that still causes the USB problem for me. I don't know exactly how that works but none of the usb serial drivers in the kernel have my device id hardcoded on the devices table, if I add it to some of the drivers and recompile they get detected but work only if I use file IO system calls to communicate with it. If I just disable the gentoo master switches it works out of the box with any application. Everything else that I need works fine with the switch disabled. ---------- Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com
