[manjaro-dev] [3.12.4] some weird regression got introduced

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Dec 10 10:03:21 CET 2013


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 09:52:18AM +0100, Philip Müller wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> thx for answering my e-mail. I know that there are lot of changes between 3.10
> and 3.12 kernel series. No doubt there. These are already old driver modules I
> maintain until they break. Some of them are already dropped from Arch-Linux.
> From the date those are alreday outdated:
> 
> 
> slmodem-2.9.11-20080126
> DPO_RT3562_3592_3062_LinuxSTA_V2.4.1.1_20101217
> 
> Build scripts can be found here:
> 
> http://git.manjaro.org/package-sources/extra/blob/
> aaedf1ffcd6a2acb7411ec9a3bb58bfa7b7bac3f/linux312-extramodules/slmodem/PKGBUILD
> http://git.manjaro.org/package-sources/extra/blob/
> aaedf1ffcd6a2acb7411ec9a3bb58bfa7b7bac3f/linux312-extramodules/rt3562sta/
> PKGBUILD
> 
> To the drivers it self. Both are provided by companies who don't care much
> about their hardware and not so much about linux. For me it was just a weird
> wakeup that it worked with 3.12.3 but not with 3.12.4 anymore.

Yes, that is odd, and it would be good to figure out what caused this.
Can you run 'git bisect' to test this out?  Or point me at a tarball
that I can grab to do the build and I can do it myself.  It shouldn't
take very long as there's no booting involved :)

thanks,

greg k-h


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