Re: [000/136] 2.6.31.2-stable review

[Eric W. Biederman]

Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:01:34PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> 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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