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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Andreas Mohr <andi@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de>,
	gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, hal@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB/hal: USB open() broken? (USB CD burner underruns, USB HDD hard resets)
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:06:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1150794417.11062.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060620013741.8e0e4a22.akpm@osdl.org>

Ar Maw, 2006-06-20 am 01:37 -0700, ysgrifennodd Andrew Morton:
> [hald polling causes cdrecord to go bad on a USB CD drive]
> 
> One possible reason is that we're shooting down the device's pagecache by
> accident as a result of hald activity. 

On IDE hal causes problems with some drives because the additional
commands sent while the drive is busy end up timing out which triggers a
bus reset and breaks everything. Really HAL should have better manners
than to poll a drive that is busy.

Alan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-20  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-19  8:21 USB/hal: USB open() broken? (USB CD burner underruns, USB HDD hard resets) Andreas Mohr
2006-06-20  8:37 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-20  8:47   ` Andreas Mohr
2006-06-20  8:56     ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-20  9:06   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-06-20  9:05     ` [linux-usb-devel] " Andreas Mohr
2006-06-20 10:18       ` Alan Cox
2006-06-20 14:22       ` Alan Stern
2006-06-21  9:33         ` Andreas Mohr
2006-06-21 16:15           ` Alan Stern
2006-06-21 16:44             ` Andreas Mohr
2006-06-21 19:06               ` Alan Stern
2006-06-21 20:52                 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-21 20:08               ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-06-21  9:10   ` Andreas Mohr
     [not found] <6pnj7-32Q-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <6pJWg-34g-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <6pKfL-3sx-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <6pKpl-3Sx-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <6pLll-5iq-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-06-21  0:07         ` [linux-usb-devel] " Bodo Eggert
2006-06-21 10:53           ` Alan Cox
2006-06-21 16:16             ` Bodo Eggert
2006-06-21 16:34               ` Andreas Mohr
2006-06-21 19:02                 ` Alan Stern
2006-06-21 19:16                   ` Andreas Mohr
2006-06-21 19:56                     ` Alan Stern
2006-06-21 20:38                     ` Bodo Eggert
2006-06-21 20:37                   ` Alan Cox

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