On Saturday, November 20, 2010 01:33:11 pm Johan Hovold did opine: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 12:27:43PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, November 20, 2010 12:20:24 pm Johan Hovold did opine: > > > This could be related to a change that was incorrectly made to the > > > DTR/RTS handling. This change has later been reverted (commit > > > 677aeafe19e88c282af74564048243ccabb1c590 upstream). > > > > How long has this incorrectness existed? I have a 9600 baud > > connection to an old old machine in the basement that cannot handle a > > 9600 baud rzsz file move from minicom unless I reset the port speed > > to 4800 baud else minicom ignores the DTR/CTS drops and keeps on > > pouring the data into the pipe. > > The bad commit was made on June 3rd this summer. Unfortunately, it was > marked for stable and then later back-ported to all stable trees. I > think it hit 2.6.32 around 2.6.32.14 or so. You should be able to find > out by searching the logs for the commit id of the reverted commit > (6a1a82df91fa0eb1cc76069a9efe5714d087eccd "USB: ftdi_sio: fix DTR/RTS > line modes"). > > > > Could you see if 2.6.37-rc2 works as it should? The revert will also > > > be part of 2.6.36.1 (and 2.6.35.9) soon to be released. > > > > Sounds like a good excuse to rebuild a kernel that only has about an > > hours uptime on Mike Galbraith's scheduler patches, and they are > > definitely a keeper. > > Yeah, those ones look really promising. > > Thanks, > Johan Looks like I'm headed off to get the 36.1 patch then. Thanks again. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
