On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 03:32:24PM -0400, Stuart MacDonald wrote: > There's a problem with multiple White Heats in one system; the > firmware fake devices each suck up a minor number, and when the real > devices start enumerating they start at the first free number. The > user-visible symptom is that sometimes (on a warm reboot the firmware > is already running, and the fake devices are never seen) the White > Heats will start at 0, and sometimes will start at a higher number, > even though there's space and nothing else taking the lower numbers. > > This patch fixes this behaviour, by copying the good-but-skip-init > behaviour used by the type->attach code into the type->probe code. > > I don't see a problem, and testing of the 2.4 kernels has worked for > us, but I currently don't have a system that will build the 2.6 test > kernels so this *specific* patch is untested.
Heh, the whiteheat device doesn't even work on 2.6 right now due to a sysfs bug. This prevents all firmware-download devices from running, so I can't test this. Pat Mochel said he would look into that bug sometime next week. > Greg, please apply. I'll wait till I can test this before applying it, is that ok? There are also lots of other bugs in the White Heat driver in 2.6. If you go back to 2.6.0-test3 and run the device on a SMP kernel with pre-empt enabled and spinlock debugging enabled, you will see lots of errors in the kernel log. Want to fix those up? > I'll apologise ahead of time for any tab damage; we switched from OE > to Outlook, and my test shows tabs are honoured now, but this will be > my first patch posted. It was line wrapped :( But the tabs came through :) thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
