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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Remo Inverardi <invi@your.toilet.ch>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OHCI Host Controler Died
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:19:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030909231949.GA8175@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F5E5F61.6030406@your.toilet.ch>

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:16:49AM +0200, Remo Inverardi wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> >Great, go bug vmware then :)
> 
> I will -- but ...
> 
> I was under the impression that all of VMware's USB code is running in 
> user space. Running "grep -ir usb ." in VMware's modules/source 
> directory did not return any hits, so this assumption is probably correct.

I'm under that impression too, but due to them requiring kernel drivers
to support their program, I can not be sure.

> This does look like a kernel bug to me, since it should not be possible 
> to crash the OHCI driver from user space.

I agree.  And if you can figure out how it does that, we would really
appreciate it :)

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2003-09-09 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-09 22:00 OHCI Host Controler Died Remo Inverardi
2003-09-09 22:51 ` Greg KH
2003-09-09 23:16   ` Remo Inverardi
2003-09-09 23:19     ` Greg KH [this message]

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