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

[Rob McCathie]

Hi Phil,

Ya I saw your email just after I'd sent mine ;S


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Philip Müller <philm at manjaro.org> wrote:

>  Hi Rob,
>
> those patches are already nicely packed into a single tarball which I
> already sent to Greg in my previous e-mail.
> You find it as:
>
> attachment-0001.bin <http://lists.manjaro.org/pipermail/manjaro-dev/attachments/20131210/c7b29455/attachment-0001.bin>
>
> Simply rename it to:
>
> linux312-extramodules-regression-files.tar.xz
>
> sha1sum would be:
>
> 8f3484848a41f0df470a574d560bdbfba56d49bb
> linux312-extramodules-regression-files.tar.xz
>
> kind regards
>
> Phil
>
>
> On 12/10/2013 10:27 AM, Rob McCathie wrote:
>
>   Hi Greg,
>
>  Firstly, much thanks for the work you do maintaining the LTS kernels.
> They're much appreciated on my systems where consistency is vital.
>
>  Here are links to tarballs of the modules Phil is talking about:
>
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/362439/DPO_RT3562_3592_3062_LinuxSTA_V2.4.1.1_20101217.tgz
>
>
> http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/slmodem-2.9.11-20080126.tar.gz
>
>  However, many patches are applied to them before building (most or all
> are required to build on newer kernels). These are the same pacthes that
> had the modules building fine on 3.12.3.
>
>  Those patches and the Arch/Manjaro PKGBUILDs, of within you can see
> other actions taken when building, can be found here:
>
>
> http://git.manjaro.org/package-sources/extra/tree/master/linux312-extramodules/rt3562sta
>
>
> http://git.manjaro.org/package-sources/extra/tree/master/linux312-extramodules/slmodem
>
>  Regards,
> Rob McCathie
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <
> gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> 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 From the date those are alreday outdated: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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