RE: [linux-usb-devel] [4/4] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions

From: Stuart_Hayes
Date: Wed Aug 22 2007 - 10:42:39 EST


Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> Side note: after reverting 196705c9bb I can't get the mouse to skip
>> any more on that mac mini. But since the bad behaviour wasn't 100%
>> reliable to begin with, that's not really a guarantee of anything.
>> Two out of three kids are off on camp this week, so that machine
>> probably won't be getting a lot of testing ;/
>
> Well, my one remaining child said today that "I got so much time on
> webkinz today - yesterday the mouse locked up after five minutes".
>
> Apparently it hadn't had the mouse lock up at all today.
>
> So I really do believe that that 196705c9bb commit caused problems on
> intel-only USB machines too ("ondemand" cpufreq governor, switching
> between 1.0-1.66 Ghz using acpi-cpufreq: totally bog-standard in all
> respects, in other words).
>
> Linus

If you were running 2.6.26-rc3, that's quite possibly because you didn't
have the follow-up patch that fixed my original patch... it wasn't in
2.6.26-rc3
(http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-usb-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg56
523.html). It fixed a bug with my patch that wasn't necessary with
Broadcom, but was with nVidia (and Intel, I believe).

That could definitely cause mouse lock-ups. Sorry, that should have
occurred to me yesterday when you mentioned the problem your kids were
seeing, but it didn't for some reason.

Stuart
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