On Thursday 21 August 2014 09:02:44 you wrote:
At Wed, 20 Aug 2014 18:50:21 +0100,
Dr Nicholas J Bailey wrote:
... So the thing is, I can't make any stock kernel work on my Debian laptop, which means there aren't two points between which to bisect.
That's all I've got time for at the moment. I'll append the notes I made yesterday and today while the builds and tests were going on, just in case they are any help. At least I have a kernel (3.10.11) that works for now, but unless somebody who really knows what they are doing is going on the case, it looks like its just a matter of time before I'll be buying a whole bunch of new audio interfaces. We have at least 4 or 5 of these Tascam US-122 boxes, and use them quite a lot, so I am nervously fingering my wallet... :(
Try to build 3.10.11 from linux-stable tree manually and see whether it works. If yes, there must be a fix between 3.10 and 3.10.11, and you can bisect it easily.
If the manual built 3.10.11 kernel doesn't work, it's most likely a kernel config issue, assuming that Debian doesn't put so many own kernel patches (especially for the sound stuff).
Takashi
OK, I don't understand git very well. When I first cloned the kernel repo, I did git tag -l, and I'd swear that there were only tags of the form v<major>.<minor>(-rc[0-9]+)? but now I give the same command again I get tags like v<major>.<minor>.<subminor>(-rc[0-9]+)? That's why I tried to build 3.10 and 3.11.
I might be going mad. I know I'm tired, but this is a whole new level of insanity!
I'll try building 3.10.11 from git and report back.
Nick/.