linux-kernel - Re: hid-dummy.ko Input/output error -- causing huge delays

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Message-ID: <43e72e890903031738w12a726d4ga3f998d8e4263a73@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 3 Mar 2009 17:38:32 -0800
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hid-dummy.ko Input/output error -- causing huge delays

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com> wrote:
>> On 3.3.2009 02:51, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@...il.com>
>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> FATAL: Error inserting hid_dummy
>>>> (/lib/modules/2.6.29-rc6-wl/kernel/drivers/hid/hid-dummy.ko):
>>>> Input/output error
>>>>
>>>> I remember reading a thread where you said this was non-fatal and that
>>>> hid-dummy.ko would go away. On my system, every now in a blue moon the
>>>> above causes a huge delay during the bootup sequence. I'm talking
>>>> about a full 1-2 minute delay. Why is the delay so sporadic?
>>>
>>> s/once in a blue moon/often/
>>>
>>> as it seems I get this now upon every reboot.
>>
>> So I suppose the problem goes away, when you change -EIO to 0 in
>> drivers/hid/hid-dummy.c
>
> Yeap.

Well now I see FC10 say its starting udev and it just sits there
waiting for the same period of time so maybe it was that (?). But at
the console the hid-dummy is not the last message I see now, but I
guess I wouldn't because it returns 0 now huh.

  Luis
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