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Message-Id: <20071008.222622.22041332.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:26:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:	david-b@...bell.net, linux-usb-users@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, greg@...ah.com
Subject: Re: OHCI root_port_reset() deadly loop...

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:13:36 +1000

> I'm not even sure module load order is 100% fault proof here since
> khubd spawns as a thread...

I'm concerned about that as well, thanks for bringing it up.

My understanding, however, is that the critical thing is that the EHCI
device reset being done by the EHCI driver probe occurs and completes
first.  If that is true, then just making sure EHCI loads initially is
a sufficient constraint to fix this problem.
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