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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 13:37:37 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz> To: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net> Subject: Re: annoying frequent overcurrent messages. Hi! > > > Well, overcurrent is a potentially dangerous situation. That's why it > > > gets reported with dev_err priority. > > > > Well, I see overcurrents all the time while doing suspend/resume... > > > > Why is it dangerous? USB should survive plugging something that > > connects +5V and ground. It may turn your machine off, but that should > > be it...? > > The key words here are "potentially", "should", and "may". > > BTW, what sort of overcurrents do you see during suspend/resume? Okay, that was on X32, and I'm not using it for now, sorry about that. "Overcurrent on port XY" was the message, IIRC, but... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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