linux-kernel - Re: [regression] usb: sometimes dead keyboard after boot

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Message-Id: <200808301244.19968.elendil@planet.nl>
Date:	Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:44:19 +0200
From:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [regression] usb: sometimes dead keyboard after boot

On Friday 29 August 2008, you wrote:
> Maybe you haven't enabled anything special, but something sure is
> running.  It appears to be probing your USB devices every 5 seconds.
> You might be able to find out what it is by adding
>
> 	printk(KERN_INFO "usbdev open by %s\n", current->comm);
>
> to usbdev_open() in drivers/usb/core/devio.c.

Thanks a lot. That identified the culprit: brltty (which I only have 
installed for some very rare testing with the Debian Installer).

I'll file a bug in the Debian BTS as I know the Debian maintainer has very 
good contacts with the upstream developers.
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