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On Dec 10, 2007 2:36 AM, Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have identified another regression introduced by
> commit f04b3787bbce4567e28069a9ec97dcd804626ac7.
>
> On my device it shows up as broken transmission after
> a suspend/resume cycle. The workaround for it is to boot
> a known good driver (in my case the vendor driver in OSX)
> and then reboot (without turning the machine off) into the
> broken driver.
>
> It seems like we unintentionally removed some significant
> initialization step in that patch. I could not identify it, yet.
> The patch I sent yesterday did fix two other bugs, but not this one.
>
> I am trying to find the reason for this.
> If someone wants to help searching, the best way would be to look
> at that patch I mentioned above and compare the stuff that it
> removes to the stuff that it adds. There must be some tiny line
> that it removes but does not re-add it at another place.
> Four eyes see more than two.
>
> I have no idea how this bug could be related to the few bugreports
> in the redhat bugzilla. Though, one could test that by trying a
> kernel that does not include the patch.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
> --
> Greetings Michael.
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RE:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412861
I downloaded the source for 2.6.23.8-63.fc8.src.rpm the package that
things started to stop working at, and could not find any part of this
patch applied, so at least for that bug it is something else.

-- 
Brennan Ashton
Bellingham, Washington

"The box said, 'Requires Windows XP or better'. So I installed Linux"
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