On Friday 01 August 2003 23:07, Greg KH wrote: >On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 09:50:12PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >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. >> >> Mayby so, but first you have to get it to build. It has some >> Makefiles in it that are IMO, broken, they are using a uname >> return to find out what version of the includes to use. > >The kernel makefile system is doing that? Huh? Have you reported > this to lkml anywhere? > Not the kernel Makefile, but i2c-2.7.0, and lm_sensors-2.7.0. And the practice continues in the 2.8.0 releases. The kernel itself has only a limited subset of the i2c stuffs in it. I have it working with kernel 2.4.22-pre8 yet, but so far 2.4.22-pre10 has failed. The i2c-viapro module seems to have disappeared, which since I have a via equipt mobo, pretty well puts things out of bosiness. I've managed to get i2c-viapro to build, but then depmod screams, and modprobe fails.
I actually have 2 independent problems with the test 2.6's, lm_sensors has died, and scsi has died. >> Sucks dead toads thru soda straws to me. Kind of hard to build a >> 2.6 kernel when its trying to use the 2.4.22-pre8 includes. >> >> See message on lkml. > >Pointers to it? Humm, going back thru my kmail lkml folder, I have to say that my messages don't seem to have quoted this particular scsi error, so I will make sure it does get posted there later today. I see it in my sent-mail folder, but not in the echo from vger. Sent on 7/10/03, I'll repost it. How do I get vger to echo my own posts back to me? It apparently is not, which makes it rather difficult to keep a record of what actually made it to the list. :( Ahh, found it by subject line. "Odd goings on for new 2.4.22-prex builds", so it did make it to the list on 7/10/03 08:23. >As for using 2.5/2.6 for everyday use, I've used _every_ 2.5 kernel > as my main development station, for email and other work related > stuff and never had a problem. My machines run much better on 2.6 > than on 2.4, and I can switch between them with no problems. I tried a couple of them back in the 5.40's area, and again in the 5.70ish range, but they wouldn't build, the make xconfigs bombing out. But I wasn't on lkml then so I just waited. When the first 2.6-test came out, then I started to build them again, but now a vital piece of my system doesn't build properly, drivers/scsi/advansys.c, which has some deprecated 'check_region' stuffs in it, and it now gets in a loop of resetting the scsi bus and (occasionally) reporting a bad pointer. I've emailed them (yesterday), but I don't expect a reply before the first of the week now. That company has changed names several times since they were advansys. So I've been booting it for tests only, not for everyday useage until this scsi problem is resolved. test1 couldn't even find my keyboard, the usual M$hit $25 internet model. But that was a .config error on my part I found. >We need to get 2.6 stable to get 2.6.0 out. If you have any > problems with it, please let us know. bugzilla.kernel.org is also > a good place to log bugs for most subsystems (not networking > though...) The person who wrote bugzilla must be some shirt-tail kin of the Marquis deSade. Rigidly Enforced formatting is not conducive to describing the problem being experienced. I've used it exactly twice, and both times it took over an hours worth of stripping information back out until it said nothing before it would accept the report. Of what utility is that? Thanks for letting me vent a bit. >thanks, > >greg k-h -- Cheers Greg, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
