Re: port-i386/57662: StarTech ICUSB23208FD 8-Port USB-to-Serial Adapter Hub fails on Alix with NetBSD/i386 9.3

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/57662; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-i386/57662: StarTech ICUSB23208FD 8-Port USB-to-Serial
 Adapter Hub fails on Alix with NetBSD/i386 9.3
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:02:02 -0400

 On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 at 09:14:45 +0200, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
 [...]
 >Invalid PR number, I assume you meant 54977? And while I can see memory
 >fragmentation being an issue with block devices, I wouldn't expect a
 >serial device to need that much memory to run into it, especially on
 >a freshly booted machine that runs little else (sshd, ntpd). Although
 >yes, this machine only does have 256M of RAM, so .. maybe?
 
 Yes, that's Gnats not handling escaped/encoded content correctly,
 should indeed be 54977.
 
 There's perhaps more than one issue occurring here. While the final
 "autoconfiguration" error you mentioned is quite generic, part of why I
 mentioned the potential overlap is because that's the same symptom I
 see when I'm able to initially mount a umass device successfully upon
 initial boot, but some time later, the same device will be rejected
 with that error. Could be completely different causes, of course.
 
 I'd suggest testing with a -current kernel. (Sorry, I don't have any
 particularly useful insights here; I do use USB-serial adapters, but
 nothing quite like that.)
 
 Regards,
 
 Dave