From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OuYsN-0001YI-Qx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:48:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B6846E06F3; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:48:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64E23E06F3 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:48:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so4812196wwf.10 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:48:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=a+OLRoHqeUVE3LAJk2PbtuyObMcZBI/uElkkBln8pQ4=; b=RTDPyaCySftX6Z7U36jMF1nC4JF2ZWCIy29Vb5vP5ywcVVnXToWpwhvPoQrDKHehg1 S7HyVZqTrQ0F2St7MK8B0yTwpP/+uuKPwy0UVisR0Pt9srjZq22Izgs3MPiDlaLxDv80 i0339iTbuMKWcT61/AFJUOk+4wIjHMeu7LBqg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Ca1aJA6ZL3TdvJTpwgErp6xLH7KFscZHg7bWsTCHGBNFg7G8rCtAGd8wvaX3kM42R+ x5nkpendHhMRxfFLtyYUUFwcy59gQFMQ2lsFThj9nzcyWsar6VeW8XfMCc6FBX9kc6nE zRvYCTPpKSGoA6h+WgjqnpDHpWKV+Dt4k4+Uk= Received: by 10.227.136.129 with SMTP id r1mr1451457wbt.114.1284245280441; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:48:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w31sm3649876wbd.3.2010.09.11.15.47.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:47:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] undetected DVD r/w device Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:47:46 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <1283763300.4c84ac640b3cc@imp.free.fr> <201009112215.12989.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201009112257.12652.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <201009112257.12652.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3338864.pYbyHLnorT"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009112347.58576.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: bd45245f-eb4a-4ed8-82ab-70655275e6b6 X-Archives-Hash: eda7a8f22dfc03b02bcf6b831784d55d --nextPart3338864.pYbyHLnorT Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 11 September 2010 22:57:12 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 11 September 2010 21:15:12 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:24 on Saturday 11 September 2010, > >=20 > > Peter Humphrey did opine thus: > > > On Saturday 11 September 2010 18:50:04 Mick wrote: > > > > Deselect that which is deprecated and will be removed soon > > >=20 > > > I hope it won't. I have one box whose drives the new drivers cannot > > > detect - at least, nothing I've tried has worked so far. > >=20 > > That's the beauty of Linux. When Linus decides he's had enough > > keeping old stuff hanging around and rips it out, you just put it > > right back in your own copies. >=20 > Hmm. Not sure how I'd do that. I'd just assumed that I'd stick with a > kernel version that worked. You know: mask anything later than version > 99.94. And yes, I do remember that version, but in the 1.n.n series. Is it possible to create one's own patch for drivers from old kernel(s) and= =20 use that to patch later versions?! O_O =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart3338864.pYbyHLnorT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkyMBx4ACgkQVTDTR3kpaLa7EgCcD7h38BP/3M7EhIIWjrnQXzOh 6PAAoPw/xjNJdyNudUMencxdUOtJSUu2 =qcIn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3338864.pYbyHLnorT--