Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:33:32 -0700 (PDT) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: long-term regression |
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:28:07 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > >>> On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:57:55 -0700 (PDT) david@lang.hm wrote: >>> I haven't had time to bisect this, but I'm having a problem on a AMD64 >>> gentoo system where the printer doesn't work with recent kernels. >>> >>> 2.6.18-rc3 worked >>> 2.6.21.1 doesn't >>> 2.6.22-rc4 doesn't >>> >>> unfortunantly the system is gooted on 2.6.18 at the moment and I'm out of >>> town so my ability to test is limited I can provide the 2.6.22-rc4 >>> (attached) and 2.6.18-rc3 configs. >>> >>> dmesg appears to show the port being detected, but writes to the port >>> under newer kernels appear to complete, but no data gets to the printer. >>> >>> any suggestions other then doing the large bisect? >> >> That would be good, thanks. Please be sure to cc linux-usb-devel on >> the results. > > OK, I'm curious about how someone deduced that this is a problem > with a USB printer vs. parallel port printer since the config file has: > > CONFIG_PRINTER=y > CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=y > > The kernel boot log should probably be posted also.
it's a parallel port printer, not a usb printer. when I get home from usenix I'll reboot into a new kernel and post the boot logs for both configs.
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