From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265548AbUFON6o (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:58:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265541AbUFON6o (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:58:44 -0400 Received: from ylpvm15-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.57.46]:60085 "EHLO ylpvm15.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265548AbUFON6l (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:58:41 -0400 Message-ID: <40CF0049.2010307@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 06:57:29 -0700 From: David Brownell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary_Lerhaupt@Dell.com CC: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] proper bios handoff in ehci-hcd References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gary_Lerhaupt@Dell.com wrote: > Stuart Hayes here at Dell has identified this or/and mix-up in the > ehci-hcd driver. Because of this, ehci-hcd is not properly released by > BIOSes supporting full 2.0 and port behavior can then become erratic. Good patch, it should be merged. That handoff code actually predates general availability of BIOSes handling _any_ EHCI controllers, and your patch resolves a problem I'd seen on a newish board but hadn't yet had time to track down (beyond knowing that broken BIOS handoff was the issue). Thanks to you and Stuart! - Dave