linux-kernel - Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.23-rc7-mm1

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Message-ID: <46F805BE.5090609@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:45:18 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.23-rc7-mm1

On 09/24/2007 04:41 PM, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 
>> On 09/24/2007 11:17 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc7/2.6.23-rc7-mm1/
>> Fine, but on some boots (I noticed this on rc6-mm1 too, but not before):
>> 0000:00:1a.7 EHCI: BIOS handoff failed (BIOS bug ?) 01010001
>> 0000:00:1d.7 EHCI: BIOS handoff failed (BIOS bug ?) 01010001
> 
> Any changes in your BIOS setup?

unlikely, but still possible -- I've made some changes in BIOS recently when I
looking backwards. Which concrete changes would turn it in such behaviour?

> What about with vanilla 2.6.23-rc6?  Or vanilla 2.6.23-rc7?
> 
> The USB part of the code here hasn't changed in quite a while.  Any 
> difference in behavior must be the result of changes in some other part 
> of the kernel.  Possibly ACPI.
> 
> This might be a good job for git-bisect.

Ok, I'll play with that little bit.

thanks,
-- 
Jiri Slaby (jirislaby@...il.com)
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
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