On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 25 July 2003 10:33, Alan Stern wrote: > > > >Good lord, no! The 2.4 version of the UHCI driver is vastly > > different from the 2.6 version. I wouldn't touch it without > > spending a few weeks studying it first. > > Chuckle, I guess thats clear enough. And I suppose its nothing so > simple as cleaning out the 2.4 usb dir and copying the devel dir in > and maybe tweaking the .config.in file?
People frown on the idea of taking development kernel stuff and just sticking it into a stable kernel, particularly when the stuff is quite new. > I was asking because I've got a wierdness here that seems almost > random in that an unsupported camera attached to a usb port is > sometimes found, and sometimes not, depending on the phase of the > moon and the goats state of estrus, but can be made 100% dependable > by turning on the verbose usb debugging. That of course completely > swamps the dmesg buffer so all the early boot info is lost. > > I don't know enough about it to fix it myself, so I'm sitting here in > lurk mode 99% of the time. Once I can get its recognition solid, and > if I ever get in touch with Sunplus and get a data sheet on the ASIC > thats in that camera, (we've been playing phone tag for 2 weeks now) > then I might take a swing or 7 at fixing that qcamvc driver to run > this chipset too. In other words, I know just enough C to be > dangerous. :-) > > Thanks. All I can suggest is that the USB support in 2.6.0 is much more solid than in 2.4.22, so try to work there. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
