Re: [linux-usb-devel] oops when loading ehci_hcd

[Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>]

David Brownell (david-b@pacbell.net) said: 
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >With a 2.6.6-rc1 based kernel. Happened when loading ehci_hcd some
> >10 hours after booting, couldn't reproduce in initial attempts. I
> >suppose the question is also why it failed to init, but it certainly
> >didn't like the failure...
> 
> Hmm, no it didn't.  The "illegal capability" is the hardware acting
> broken (what kind of EHCI hardware?); I've had reports of similar
> stuff happening after ACPI resume (bogus PCI config space values,
> in this case zero).

In fact, I believe I did do suspend/resume at some point previous
in the day. Thinkpad T40p - the ACPI suspend/resume probably explains
why it didn't happen again after reboot.

> --- 1.75/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c	Wed Apr 14 20:20:58 2004
> +++ edited/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c	Fri Apr 16 11:03:50 2004
> @@ -592,7 +592,8 @@
>  
>  	/* root hub is shut down separately (first, when possible) */
>  	spin_lock_irq (&ehci->lock);
> -	ehci_work (ehci, NULL);
> +	if (ehci->async)
> +		ehci_work (ehci, NULL);
>  	spin_unlock_irq (&ehci->lock);
>  	ehci_mem_cleanup (ehci);

Will try that at some point, thanks!

Bill