Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.24-rc3-mm1: usb mouse doesn't work

Alan Stern
2007-12-31T21:06:36Z

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

> On [Thu, 22.11.2007 21:51], Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Marin Mitov wrote:
> >
> > > > > > I've had some strangenesses with USB lately. Sometimes running `lsusb'
> > > > > > makes the USB system notice a newly attached device.
> > > > >
> > > > > No. But I have new messages in dmesg:
> > > > >
> > > > > uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: FGR not stopped yet!
> > > > > uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: FGR not stopped yet!
> > > > > uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: FGR not stopped yet!
> > > > > uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: FGR not stopped yet!
> > > > >
> > > > > > Is that "FGR not stopped yet!" messgae new behaviour?
> > > > >
> > > > > It is a new message since 2.6.24-rc3. I have never try -mm tree before.
> > > >
> > > > These messages could indicate a timing problem. You can see the code
> > > > that writes the messages near the end of wakeup_rh() in
> > > > drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c.
> > > >
> > > > The message gets written if the controller hardware hasn't turned off a
> > > > particular bit after a 4-us delay. If the udelay() function wasn't
> > > > working right, it could cause this problem.
> > >
> > > udelay() _is_ OK for 2.6.24-rc3, so it is not the cause of the problem
> >
> > But is it OK for 2.6.24-rc3-mm1? Kirill said specifically that
> > 2.6.24-rc3 does not display the message but 2.6.24-rc3-mm1 does.
>
> How can I test it?

Any progress? How about more recent kernels?

Alan Stern