Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:36:46 -0500 (EST) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] OOM and USB, latest Linux 2.6 |
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On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Dan Aloni wrote:
> You are right, I looked over this state with kdb, and usb-storage > waited in usb_stor_bulk_transfer_sg, which does pass GFP_NOIO > at this scenario. ...
> BTW, soft-rebooting the machine in that state made the USB > storage device (LEXAR, JD LIGHTNING II) inaccessible to the > BIOS. I had to do a complete power cycle in order or the BIOS > to see it again.
That's the fault of the BIOS and/or the Lexar device. The BIOS ought to do a complete reset of the USB controller and a reset of the device. If the device remains unusable after that, there isn't anything we can do about it.
Alan Stern
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