Re: Logs being spammed with "Unable to enumerate USB device"

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

Larry Finger wrote:
> Robert Hancock wrote:
>> Is this just occurring during bootup? I think this is normal if the EHCI
>> driver is loaded after UHCI or OHCI because it causes the device to be
>> switched away from the other controller that's trying to enumerate it,
>> at least momentarily.
> 
> It sometimes happens at bootup, but at other times I will get hundreds
> of them in a row in the logs. I have put in some debugging where the
> message is triggered, but have not seen any of the flood-type since.

I now have more information. The if statement that triggers the
message is as follows:

if (hub->hdev->parent ||
    !hcd->driver->port_handed_over ||
    !(hcd->driver->port_handed_over)(hcd, port1))

For all the messages that I have captured, the first condition
(hub->hdev->parent) is always true.

For the isolated message that occurs at bootup, the second condition
(!hcd->driver->port_handed_over) is true and the third is false.

When the message storm occurs, the second condition is false, i.e.
hcd->driver->port_handed_over is not zero, but
!(hcd->driver->port_handed_over)(hcd, port1) is true.

As before, I am willing to test any patches. As the message storm is
rare, it will be difficult to show that a patch fixes the problem.

Larry