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

2008-02-21 Thread Alan Stern
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: > > It sounds like an old version of a Novell product is making a newer > > kernel spit out a warning message. > > Originally that was all that it was, but now I am seeing the product in > question not even see the hard drive despite the fact that it is

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 h

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

2008-02-21 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:36:23AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: > > > 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 > > >> prese

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

2008-02-21 Thread Alan Stern
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: > 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 exp

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 K

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

2008-02-20 Thread Alan Stern
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 KH may be able to help in that respect.

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, pleas

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

2008-02-20 Thread Alan Stern
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: > > What do you mean by "does not see the drive"? > > Its detect-hardware-and-report mode shows a HD size of 0 (which is what > it has showed in cases where the kernel has not detected the drive), its > detect-partitions-and-report mode shows no partitio

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

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew Buehler
(I suspect that some of the existing CC:s can now be dropped, and others might need to be added if indeed this is worth discussing on kernel lists at all, but I don't know what the protocol on that is so I have left all of them in for the moment.) On 2/20/2008 10:50 AM, Alan Stern wrote: On Tue

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

2008-02-20 Thread Alan Stern
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 p

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 in my