linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25.1, stray noise in dmesg

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 6 Jun 2008 13:42:27 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25.1, stray noise in dmesg

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 02:55:55PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 05 June 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 08:50:33PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > On Friday 02 May 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > > I'm seeing these too (hub 5-0):
> > > > hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
> > > > hub 5-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
> > > > hub 5-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 7
> > >
> > > Note that in my case this is not with an external hub or anything,
> > > but just the internal USB ports of the system.
> > >
> > > One thing with this message is that because of its "error" status, it
> > > also shows when the system is booted with the "quiet" option. Could
> > > it be an option to apply the following patch so that at least that is
> > > avoided?
> >
> > I agree, I'll change the message to be this, thanks for the patch.
> 
> I'm not sure that it is needed anymore. Looks like for me the messages 
> have disappeared with -rc5, probably due to 3a31155cfff0935e (Alan Stern,
> "USB: EHCI: suppress unwanted error messages").
> So it wasn't broken hardware after all :-)
> 
> If that solves all or most cases the error was being hit, lowering its 
> severity is probably not needed.

Ah, nevermind then, I'll not worry about this :)

thanks,

greg k-h
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/