On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 10:15 +0100, ael wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:07:17PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 19:42 +0100, ael wrote:
> > > Package: linux-2.6
> > > Version: 3.0.0-3
> > > Severity: normal
> > > Tags: upstream
> > >
> > >
> > > Regression in the ark3116 (perhaps interaction with usbserial).
> > >
> > > The hardware is a USB ->serial port converter.
> > > It was last used on this machine running debian testing in December
> > > 2011. It ran successfully with the debian kernel at that time.
> >
> > Please can you test with an older kernel package (they are still
> > available from <http://snapshot.debian.org/package/linux-2.6/>) to
> > verify that this is definitely a difference between kernel versions.
>
> I was going to try that but I am away from home with limited
> connectivity. Just hope that I don't hit dependency hell...
> Any easy way to discover which binary was current back in December?
> The lack of a release date in debs I find awkward.
[...]
In December, testing/unstable saw versions 2.6.32-{28,29,30} and
experimental saw 2.6.36-1~experimental.1 followed by various 2.6.37
release candidates. Maybe you should just test the current version from
squeeze.
Ben.
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