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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: annoying frequent overcurrent messages.
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 13:37:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060808113737.GH4442@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0607131027200.6702-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

Hi!

> > > Well, overcurrent is a potentially dangerous situation.  That's why it 
> > > gets reported with dev_err priority.
> > 
> > Well, I see overcurrents all the time while doing suspend/resume...
> > 
> > Why is it dangerous? USB should survive plugging something that
> > connects +5V and ground. It may turn your machine off, but that should
> > be it...?
> 
> The key words here are "potentially", "should", and "may".
> 
> BTW, what sort of overcurrents do you see during suspend/resume?

Okay, that was on X32, and I'm not using it for now, sorry about
that. "Overcurrent on port XY" was the message, IIRC, but...
								Pavel
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-08 11:37 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
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 [this message]
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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