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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: annoying frequent overcurrent messages.
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:08:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060713120815.GA5727@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0607121012570.6607-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

Hi!

> > I have a box that's having its dmesg flooded with..
> > 
> > hub 1-0:1.0: over-current change on port 1
> > hub 1-0:1.0: over-current change on port 2
> > hub 1-0:1.0: over-current change on port 1
> > hub 1-0:1.0: over-current change on port 2
> ...
> 
> > over and over again..
> > The thing is, this box doesn't even have any USB devices connected to it,
> > so there's absolutely nothing I can do to remedy this.
> 
> Well, overcurrent is a potentially dangerous situation.  That's why it 
> gets reported with dev_err priority.

Well, I see overcurrents all the time while doing suspend/resume...

Why is it dangerous? USB should survive plugging something that
connects +5V and ground. It may turn your machine off, but that should
be it...?
									Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-13 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200607111747.13529.david-b@pacbell.net>
2006-07-12 14:19 ` Alan Stern
2006-07-12 16:56   ` Dave Jones
2006-07-12 17:09   ` Ray Lee
2006-07-12 17:19     ` Alan Stern
2006-07-12 17:34       ` Ray Lee
2006-07-12 17:45         ` Alan Stern
2006-07-12 18:06           ` Ray Lee
2006-07-12 17:51       ` Dave Jones
2006-07-12 18:07         ` Alan Stern
2006-07-12 18:26         ` Alan Cox
2006-07-13 12:08   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-07-13 12:14     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-13 14:29     ` Alan Stern
2006-08-08 11:37       ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-13 20:50 Al Boldi
2006-07-14 20:44 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-15  3:54   ` Al Boldi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-12  0:37 Dave Jones

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