Re: Treo 300: pilot-link works, gnome-pilot doesn't

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct mit edu>]

David A. Desrosiers wrote:

> > Uh, yes.  From the same post you replied to:
> >    
> 	My bad, long weekend. [snip] I can't try it right
> now though, because I'm stuck debugging 100% reproducable machine hard
> lockups with my Treo90.
No problem, I understand.  Sorry about the condescending tone of my last 
post; the previous one really didn't make it clear that's what I did.

> 	I can see lots of wonderful exploits happening with this code if it
> doesn't get fixed quickly. I can walk up to a machine running hotplug (yet
> another reason never to run it), plug in my Treo, hit HotSync, tap Cancel,
> and immediately hard-lock the machine, all without ever having an account on
> the box, just with a USB device plugged into the back. Niiiice.
Ouch!  This is trouble with the kernel code, and/or hotplug, not 
pilot-link or gnome-pilot, right?

> > It does properly detect the device now (though as a Visor, not a Treo;
> > since product_id is 0x0100 I don't see how we can distinguish...),
> >    
> 	Oddly, my Treo90 is 0200, and the rest appear to be 0100. Check the
> pilot-link.org Wiki (wiki.pilot-link.org).
Cool, didn't know about this Wiki.  But pilot-link.org seems to be down 
or unreachable at the moment.

> > Something else is wrong.
> >    
>
> 	Are you using Greg's rollup patches, or the other (non-working) ones
> that have been floating around lately? I know Greg's latest on 2.4 stopped
> the hard-lockups on my Thinkpad, but 2.5 still hard locks the box when I tap
> Cancel on the Treo90 when it tries to sync. What kernel are you using again?
2.4.20 with Greg's patches.  "pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyUSB1 -l" and -L work 
just fine, which is why I'm confused about gnome-pilot.

Take your time, you're right that the hard lockup is much more important!
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-Adam P.

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