Re: bugs in ugen.h (and fix)

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:27:49 -0800
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 12:53:11AM +0000, Jamie Jones wrote:
> 
> Trying to get the SpeedTouch ADSL modem to work with Freebsd 5.3-RELEASE,
> I got the kernel error:
> 
>  | pppoa2 : pusb_endpoint_open failed
>  | 
>  | WARNING: Driver mistake: destroy_dev on 238/1
>  | 
>  | panic: don't do that
> 
> After some googling, I found a patch to ugen.h by Jay Cornwall, that
> was posted to freebsd-current exactly a year ago today:
> 
> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2003-12/1005.html
> 
> I applied this patch to the ugen.c that comes with 5.3-RELEASE (patching
> manually to cope with the changes to ugen.c since his patch was posted)
> and everything has been working like a charm ever since (over a week later)
> 
> I was just wondering why this patch was never committed to the tree,
> and if it's just been overlooked, is there any reason why it can't be
> applied now ?

Perhaps it was never submitted as a PR, so it got lost.  Was there any
followup discussion on the mailing list?

Kris

Received on Sun Dec 12 2004 - 00:20:54 UTC

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