Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: VIA Firewire still broken in 2.6.5 (also broken in 2.6.4, worked in 2.6.3) | From | Alexandre Oliva <> | Date | 15 Apr 2004 17:24:09 -0300 |
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On Apr 15, 2004, Felix von Leitner <felix-kernel@fefe.de> wrote:
> In 2.6.4, the kernel would detect my cold plugged Maxtor disk, but then > freeze and eventually time out trying to mount the file system on it in > the boot process.
> In 2.6.5, largely the same, but the kernel works when the disk is hot > plugged in after the boot process. Having it plugged in during the boot > process still fails, and unplugging and replugging it after the boot > process still fails.
> After a few write accesses on the file system, however, 2.6.5 panics.
> Is this a known problem? Anyone working on it?
Yup. There seems to have been some progress in this regard in the linux1394 mailing lists and SVN repository, but it's still a bit unstable.
Personally, I've been using the 2.6.3 ieee1394 sources in newer kernel releases, and it's been working very well. Perhaps we should revert drivers/ieee1394 to the 2.6.3 state until the problems are addressed in the linux1394 repository, to only then have it merged here. What we have now was a merge of a non-functional state of the tree, which servers nobody.
I can easily provide a patch to restore the working state, if people think this would be a good idea. Just say the word.
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