linux-kernel - Re: 31-rc3-mmotm0716 - dead USB trackball mouse kills entire system

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Date:	Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:49:01 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 31-rc3-mmotm0716 - dead USB trackball mouse kills entire system

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:33:46 EDT, Alan Stern said:
> A question for you: Do you now observe any warnings in the dmesg log if
> you rmmod ehci-hcd after the trackball mouse is gone?  Apparently the 
> patch you tested isn't perfect and some stuff gets leaked.  I'm trying 
> to track down the problem.

Hmm.. Let me go cook up a test kernel - I have ehci-hcd built-in rather
than a module.  Might take a day or two...

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