linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc7: Ugh.

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Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:14:53 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
To:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc7:  Ugh.

Mark Lord wrote:
> It is with great reluctance when I attempt moving my main "desktop"
> over to a new kernel version -- because the USB subsystem seems to
> break every single time.
> 
> So today I tried 2.6.25-rc7 on it for the first time.
> Not good.
> 
> It boots, but just a simple suspend/resume (RAM) was enough to kill it.
> It comes back on resume, with an X desktop again,
> but with no USB functionality -- no mouse.
> 
> The keyboard still works, so I dropped to a console and tried:
> 
>   rmmod usbhid
>   insmod usbhid
> 
> And the console hung at 100% CPU on the insmod.
> Back to 2.6.24.3 again, for now -- I've got work to do.
> 
> The specs of this machine have been posted with great regularity
> in the past, every new kernel revision it seems.   So here we go again:
> 
> Dell Inspiron 9400 notebook, Intel Core2Duo T7400, 2GB SDRAM.
..

Correction there:  3GB of RAM, not 2.

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