linux-kernel - Re: [regression?] usb: new errors during device detection

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Date:	Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:27:34 +0200
From:	Diego Zuccato <diego@...llo.alma.unibo.it>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [regression?] usb: new errors during device detection

Alan Stern ha scritto:

> As each device is enumerated, ehci-hcd determines whether it can run at 
> high speed.  If not, the corresponding switch is set so the device 
> connects back to the UHCI controller and it runs at full/low speed.
Urgh... What happens if it contains a mounted filesystem?
Seems quite dangerous...

BYtE,
  Diego.
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