Re: 2.6.7-mm6 and usb deadlock (and synaptics)

From: R. J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Jul 05 2004 - 14:58:24 EST


On Monday 05 of July 2004 21:32, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Andrew!
> >
> > With 2.6.7-mm6 my laptop stops working completely. Ooops while booting.
> >
> > Reverting
> > - usb-locking-fix.patch
> > - bk-usb.patch
> > makes it work.

No USB problems here (dual Opteron w/ NUMA w/o preemption - hardware info
attached). I've checked both 1.1 (pendrive) and 2.0 (external HDD) and both
work just fine.

I'm not sure, but it seems to me that the problems may be related to UHCI
drivers (I have OHCI) - just guessing. :-)

Yours,
rjw

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