Re: Suspecting kernel timing bug in ppp or tty drivers

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On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 09:41:56AM +0000, Mats Kärrman wrote:
> On Monday, March 10, 2014 8:40 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 01:36:36PM +0000, Mats Kärrman wrote:
> >> Some data about the system:
> >> - PPP daemon v2.4.5
> >> - Linux kernel v3.2.51 (same error with v2.6.35 though)
> > 
> > That's a really old kernel version, can you try 3.13 or newer?  Lots of
> > work has been done in the tty layer since 3.2 was released.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for your reply Greg!
> 
> For various reasons I'd prefer to go to the long-term release 3.12.y, would
> that be sufficient or do you think the changes made to 3.13 are critical?

It's a good place to start testing, and better than 3.2 :)

> (Btw. You recently set a tag for 3.12.14 but the tip of 3.12.y is 3.12.13
>  according to git pull and kernel.org cgit, how come?)

I messed up and forgot to push the tree, should be fine now.

> As the MPC5125 is not main-line and I have some drivers for proprietary
> hardware the porting and re-testing will take me at least a week I guess.

Why aren't these drivers and arch code upstream?

greg k-h
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