Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:34:42 -0700 | Subject | Re: [000/136] 2.6.31.2-stable review |
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Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:01:34PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes: >> >> > Note from the -stable maintainer on this release: >> > >> > This release is big. Yeah, really big. There are a number of >> > areas that needed some rework in order to get things back to >> > working order. Like the tty layer. Hopefully everyone can now >> > use their usb to serial devices again without oopsing the >> > kernel >> >> The ftdi_sio driver still crashes and burns. > > What were you doing when it crashed? I tested the pl2303 device and it > worked fine for me here, I don't have a ftdi_sio one :(
sending a line every 1/10 a second in both directions. Plus I threw in baud rate change every 20 seconds. I can kill an ftdi_sio no time that way.
I think the change to disable low latency in ftdi_sio fixes that I am build a kernel to check that now.
Eric
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