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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	ray-gmail@madrabbit.org,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: annoying frequent overcurrent messages.
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:26:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152728785.22943.88.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060712175124.GF14453@redhat.com>

Ar Mer, 2006-07-12 am 13:51 -0400, ysgrifennodd Dave Jones:
> Defective it may be, I'm not arguing that.    But spewing hundreds of
> these an hour isn't going to make the user fix the problem (if they even can)
> any faster.
> 
> *grumbles and goes to edit modprobe.conf*

dmidecode
pci svid/subdevice

submit patch

I agree entirely with the other Alan here, overcurrent is a serious item
with a potential severity not that far below "your cpu fan seems to have
stopped going round  [Ok]"


If its a dodgy board it should be possible to id and blacklist its UHCI
controller



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-12 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200607111747.13529.david-b@pacbell.net>
2006-07-12 14:19 ` annoying frequent overcurrent messages Alan Stern
2006-07-12 16:56   ` Dave Jones
2006-07-12 17:09   ` Ray Lee
2006-07-12 17:19     ` Alan Stern
2006-07-12 17:34       ` Ray Lee
2006-07-12 17:45         ` Alan Stern
2006-07-12 18:06           ` Ray Lee
2006-07-12 17:51       ` Dave Jones
2006-07-12 18:07         ` Alan Stern
2006-07-12 18:26         ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-07-13 12:08   ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-13 12:14     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-13 14:29     ` Alan Stern
2006-08-08 11:37       ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-13 20:50 Al Boldi
2006-07-14 20:44 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-15  3:54   ` Al Boldi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-12  0:37 Dave Jones

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