On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:28:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> == Andries, what kind of USB problems did you have with 2.5.16?
> 
> Yes, I must keep coming back until this is cleared up.
> 
> 2.5.14 works.
> 2.5.15 works.
> 2.5.16 hangs upon insmod usb-storage
> 2.5.16 with the usb/storage directory replaced by that from 2.5.15 works
> 
> The patch from 2.5.15 to 2.5.16 is 130kB or so.
> Split the patch in separate subpatches. After applying 90kB of those
> things still work. Must look a bit better at the last part.
> Unfortunately not before Friday.
> Maybe the hang is because of the replacement of semaphores by spinlocks?
> 
> [Can the author of that code (try to) check that the locking stuff is OK?]

That would have been Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

> In the above "works" may involve an Oops at boot time that goes away
> after a power cycle.
> 
> Something that doesnt cause a failure, but is very ugly:
> Why was
>       status_byte(srb->result) == GOOD
> replaced by
>       srb->result == GOOD << 1
> ?

I don't know why this was changed.  Manfred, any ideas?

thanks,

greg k-h

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