Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:28:20 -0800 | From | David Brownell <> | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: serious 2.6 bug in USB subsystem? |
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David Mosberger wrote: >>>>>>On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:23:54 -0800, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> said: > > > David.B> David Mosberger wrote: > >> After spending a bit more time on this, it looks to me like the > >> keyboard is crashing the system very early on. > > David.B> I think there are some devices that choke the HID > David.B> code; > > And nobody is alarmed by this? Surely crashing the kernel by plugging > in a USB device must be considered a MUST-FIX item. Perhaps I missed > something, but I never saw this mentioned before.
You sound alarmed! If that's alarmed enough to find out what the real problem is, maybe you'll end up fixing it ... :)
I could be wrong about the problem being in the HID code, but that does look like a likely home for the bug. We know there are other issues with HID/input/hiddev/... that need attention.
> Having said that, out of > that 6 or so devices, that particular keyboard is the only one causing > crashes. However, note that it works (mostly) fine under 2.4 and even > if they keyboard were total crap, it certainly shouldn't crash the > kernel.
Agreed, oopsing == bad. HID needs more attention. I suspect whoever dives into that will want to know what you mean by "(mostly) fine"; that might give a clue about what 2.6 changes worsened the failures.
- Dave
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