Re: Turning off camera also kills card reader on EeePC 900

Sitsofe Wheeler
2008-09-25T20:49:48Z

> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Alan Jenkins
> wrote:
> > Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> > The "HC died" message is interesting. Sounds like the controller for
> > these two USB devices stops working. Maybe try unloading and reloading
> > the ehci module? I don't think I can help any more though.
>
> The issue also exist on 701 on 2.6.27-rc7 so the regression is in the
> kernel not in the hardware
>
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>
> So it looks like an ehci_hcd issue when the camera is disabled

And of course, having tried Ingo Molnar's linux-tip (whereas before I was using 2.6.27) I have now found a modern kernel that doesn't exhibit the problem...