Re: Turning off camera also kills card reader on EeePC 900 (USB regression?)

Sitsofe Wheeler
2008-09-26T05:47:20Z

Alan Jenkins wrote:
> Pascal Terjan wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Alan Jenkins
>> <alan-jenkins-cCz0Lq7MMjm9FHfhHBbuYA@public.gmane.org> 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
>>
> On the bright side, that means more people should have the hardware to
> test it on (including me :-).
>
> I've certainly used the camera enable/disable at some point. But I
> could have missed the error message, and frankly I don't use the camera
> or cardreader very often. I'll have a bash at it tomorrow.
>
> Sitsofe says it reproduced on kernel.org 2.6.21 (presumably with an
> out-of-tree eeepc module). So I guess this isn't a simple git-bisect
> job - more thinking required...

Er turns out I might be mistaken wrt to 2.6.21. I do have a 2.6.21
kernel but it turned out I don't have an eeepc/asus-acpi module. As I'm
going away for the next few days I won't have an opportunity to test
this soon.

The problem also seems to have vanished in Ingo's linux-tip ...

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