Re: Reboot on shutdown with USB 2.0

[Michael Madore <mmadore-JChM1cqIHx8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Grover, Andrew wrote:

>>From: Michael Madore [mailto:mmadore-JChM1cqIHx8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org] 
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>>I'm having a strange problem regarding ACPI and USB 2.0 devices 
>>(External CD-Rom, Jaz drive, etc).  Using 2.4.21-pre5 with the latest 
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>>shutdown -h now
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>>The machine shuts off, but half a second later the power 
>>comes back on. 
>> If I unload the echi driver module, the machine shuts off normally.
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>>Any thoughts on what would cause that kind of behavior?
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>Is this an SMP system? Just curious.
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Yes, this particular system is SMP.  I'll have to try it with a UP 
kernel just to see if the problem persists.

>What we should be doing (but aren't) is telling each device's driver on
>the system to deactivate its device before we turn off the system power.
>This gives the driver the chance to disable that device's interrupt
>generation. We haven't gotten that far in the driver model work, so what
>we are doing is disabling interrupts and then powering down. This mostly
>works, but isn't really how we want things to work, and is pretty much
>doomed to fail on SMP systems.
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>I don't know why the ehci device would specifically be the one to cause
>problems...
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That makes sense, thanks for the explaination.  As a workaround, perhaps 
we can modify the init scripts to unload the ehci driver during shutdown.

Mike Madore



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