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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
	linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: Commit "[PATCH] USB: Always do usb-handoff" breaks my powerbook
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:08:04 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1130821684.29054.434.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17254.62622.780185.729677@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:52 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> David Brownell writes:
> 
> > Maybe you should first pay attention to what I pointed out:  that
> > the problem reports I've seen have ONLY been on PPC systems.
> 
> Well, there is a problem in the code which is clearly visible just by
> inspection: that it is touching a pci device without having called
> pci_enable_device on it.  That is well known to cause problems on many
> platforms, and it is not guaranteed to work on any platform.
> 
> With a clearly visible bug like that in there, it doesn't matter what
> platform(s) the problem is reported on.

Yup, though I agree that considering the purpose of that code, it might
make sense for it to just "peek" to check if the device was enabled
rather than force-enabling it. If it was not, there is obviously no
handoff to do from the BIOS.

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-01  5:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-31  5:23 Commit "[PATCH] USB: Always do usb-handoff" breaks my powerbook Paul Mackerras
2005-11-01  0:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-01  1:41   ` [linux-usb-devel] " David Brownell
2005-11-01  2:41     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-01  3:09       ` David Brownell
2005-11-01  3:30         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-01  4:17           ` David Brownell
2005-11-01  4:52             ` Paul Mackerras
2005-11-01  5:08               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-11-01  9:28           ` Alan Cox
2005-11-01 13:40             ` Glenn Maynard
2005-11-01 21:09             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-01  3:39         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-11-01  4:06         ` Kyle Moffett
2005-11-01  4:39           ` David Brownell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-02  4:21 Aleksey Gorelov

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