James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 09:17, Alan Cox wrote: > >>On Mer, 2004-09-29 at 14:56, James Bottomley wrote: >> >>>The key to the solution of this problem is to know what USB is trying to >>>do with the dead device. SCSI is trying to be polite and explicitly >>>kill the outstanding commands before it removes the HBA. Presumably USB >>>is returning something that says this can't be done so the EH gets all >>>the way up to offlining. >> >>Its nothing to do with USB, rmmod with eh running crashes all the other >>SCSI drivers I've tested too. After the state transition fails you get >>kobject related errors and a crash. > > > There is no crash in the log ... there was only a state transition > complaint. > Oh, that can be fixed. Attached is the full trace (including USB debugging output). It does crash. Hard. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.de SuSE Linux AG S390 & zSeries Maxfeldstraße 5 +49 911 74053 688 90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de