From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932273AbWGLSJN (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:09:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932284AbWGLSJN (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:09:13 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:52160 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932273AbWGLSJM (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:09:12 -0400 Subject: Re: annoying frequent overcurrent messages. From: Alan Cox To: Dave Jones Cc: Alan Stern , ray-gmail@madrabbit.org, Kernel development list , David Brownell In-Reply-To: <20060712175124.GF14453@redhat.com> References: <2c0942db0607121009l1fc00764ye0b98d686700a74c@mail.gmail.com> <20060712175124.GF14453@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:26:25 +0100 Message-Id: <1152728785.22943.88.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ar Mer, 2006-07-12 am 13:51 -0400, ysgrifennodd Dave Jones: > Defective it may be, I'm not arguing that. But spewing hundreds of > these an hour isn't going to make the user fix the problem (if they even can) > any faster. > > *grumbles and goes to edit modprobe.conf* dmidecode pci svid/subdevice submit patch I agree entirely with the other Alan here, overcurrent is a serious item with a potential severity not that far below "your cpu fan seems to have stopped going round [Ok]" If its a dodgy board it should be possible to id and blacklist its UHCI controller