linux-kernel - Re: Kernel 2.6.22.6 iPod conflict with PS/2 device.

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Date:	Wed, 5 Sep 2007 06:14:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>
To:	Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	apiszcz@...arrain.com, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.22.6 iPod conflict with PS/2 device.



On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
>> When I have an iPod attached via USB to an ABIT IC7-G board before it boots up
>> and let X start etc, the mouse (PS/2) does not function, but the keyboard
>> works OK.
>>
>> GPM does not work either.
>>
>> When I attach the iPod after the machine has booted up, everything is OK,
>> until the next reboot (with the iPod still attached via USB)
>
> Interesting :-) And this happens reproducibly?
>
> You see this on 2.6.22.6 right? It'll be useful if you could test latest
> mainline -git (or -rc5). If you still find this problem, then often the
> best way to hunt such bugs is to find a previous kernel where this did
> *not* occur, and then git-bisect ...
>
>
>> Any idea why this happens?
>
> CC'es added.
>

My guess is it will occur with all kernels, it is probably a motherboard
or IRQ issue and not kernel related.  I have seen a few bugs over 5-6
years with these boards and this is another that can be added to the
list.

Justin.

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