Palm Hotsync and usbserial: New Findings

[James Liggett]

Thanks, Uwe. I really apprecate all of this. I was wondering, why are we
even using this library when there's been bugs in it that we discovered
long ago, but never fixed? And another thing that bothers me: I've
selected ALSA as my sound output, but the debug trace shows wineoss.drv
loading. What's with that?

Jmaes

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 09:49 +0200, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> >>>>> "James" == James Liggett <jrliggett at cox.net> writes:
> 
>     James> Tried your lead, but no luck. I did find the conversation, but to
>     James> my dismay it was a dead end. It ended with you saying that the
>     James> problem had gone away out of the blue:
>     James> http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/05/0075.html
> 
>     James> That's very odd. Btw, I saw that you sent a patch in to check the
>     James> sanity of driver pointers returned by DRIVER_FindFromHDrvr. Why
>     James> wasn't this committed? And, you were right about that Microquill
>     James> memory manager bug, but I realized this after the fact. For a
>     James> while I thought we weren't on the same page, but I saw a lot of
>     James> the stuff about it in the archives while searching. So that's the
>     James> cause of this crap? Anyway, thanks for you help. :)
> 
> There are two sided of the problem:
> - One is microquill not handling HeapValidate
> - Second is the loading of the sound driver using this not otherwise used
> function 
> 
> Reg one: This is a plain bug in shsmp, and I just wrote a letter to
> Microquill.
> Reg two: Apply appended workaraound. Perhaps Eric can think about a more
> valid workaround for this Microquill problem.
> 
> Bye