Re: [linux-usb-devel] possible USB regression with 2.6.21-rc4: iPod doesn't work

Chuck Ebbert
2007-03-22T21:56:31Z

David Brownell wrote:
> On Thursday 22 March 2007 12:54 pm, Tino Keitel wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 15:40:40 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
>>> _Something_ is generating those overcurrent
>>> warnings, and it sure looks like a hardware malfunction.
>> But it works with 2.6.20.
>
> So can you bisect to find what caused the problem?
>
> We've been afflicted with such strange overcurrent messages
> off and on for some time. Some hardware triggers them, while
> most doesn't, and the USB developers don't have any of the
> hardware that triggers it (that almost goes without saying).
>

Generation 1 iPod Shuffle is notorious for high current draw.
You should be able to get the 512MB model really really cheap
by now.