From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050921 Red Hat/1.7.12-1.1.3.2 Description of problem: We tested a Griffin Powermate with the latest kernel of RHEL3, but it is not correctly recognized from the kernel: The error message was "Expected payload of 3 bytes, found 6 bytes!" From /var/log/messages: Oct 13 17:32:12 viola kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.4-1, assigned address 3 Oct 13 17:32:12 viola kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x77d/0x410) is not claimed by any active driver. Oct 13 17:32:15 viola /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup powermate hid for USB product 77d/410/400 Oct 13 17:32:15 viola kernel: usb.c: registered new driver powermate Oct 13 17:32:15 viola kernel: powermate: Expected payload of 3 bytes, found 6 bytes! Oct 13 17:32:15 viola kernel: input: Griffin PowerMate on input1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): admin@viola(66)# modinfo powermate filename: /lib/modules/2.4.21-37.EL/kernel/drivers/usb/powermate.o description: "Griffin Technology, Inc PowerMate driver" author: "William R Sowerbutts" license: "GPL" How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Plugin powermate device 2. type 'dmesg' 3. Compile user tools from http://sowerbutts.com/powermate/powermate-1.0.tgz 4. call 'rotomatic' Actual Results: No Powermate device was found Expected Results: The testprogram should display the rotate steps. Additional info: I have rebuild a custom kernel and aplied the 2.4.21 patch from: http://sowerbutts.com/powermate/powermate-2.4.21.patch With this modified module testprogram shows the expexted results. But this is no sulution, because this would prevent our customers from updateing the kernel from future versions, as we can't expect them to recompile new kernels and apply patches to c file.
Created attachment 120050 [details] tar file with the user utilities This is the tar file with the user utilities
Created attachment 120052 [details] patch from http://sowerbutts.com/powermate/powermate-2.4.21.patch This patch, if aplied to /usr/src/linux/driver/usb/powermate.c does fix the problem.
This patch is in RHEL 4 already. Is a migration feasible?
Not at this time. The current Hardware at customers site (HP-xw4200/xw4300) is still delivered with RHEL3, and the roadmap of our software does not include RHEL4 either for the next 6 month.
QE ack for 3.9.
RHEL3.9 is a bugfix only release but this is a Feature addition. It does not seem to me that this driver should have recognize the hardware? I understand that the customer has been waiting for this a long time but I do not see how I could ACK it after RHEL3U8.
This is simply a bug fix from upstream 2.4.22 (from 3 years ago), so I'm removing the FutureFeature keyword.
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 U9 patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-47.4.EL).
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0436.html