linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] Loading both ehci-hcd and uhci-hcd drivers causes my printer to fail

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Date:	Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:07:40 +0200
From:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Loading both ehci-hcd and uhci-hcd drivers causes my
 printer to fail

On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 12:58 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> 
> > > No, adding a dependency won't work because it is valid to load 
> > > uhci-hcd without ehci-hcd.  The only time a problem occurs is if you 
> > > load both of them in the wrong order.  (And in fact it's pretty rare 
> > > for that to cause a real problem -- mostly you just get some annoying 
> > > messages in the log.)
> > But since it can cause a problem, this has to be somehow automatically
> > fixed isn't it?
> 
> Can it cause a problem?  I'm not so sure -- it depends on what you mean 
> by "problem".  One person complained forcefully just because he didn't 
> like all the extra "disconnect" messages in the system log, even though 
> everything worked perfectly.
> 
> > For example how to I ensure the correct order with udev?
> 
> You can't.  But you can add rules to /etc/modprobe.conf to insure that 
> ehci-hcd is always loaded before uhci-hcd.
> 
> > > CONFIG_USB_EHCI_ROOT_HUB_TT shouldn't make any difference at all.  
> > > That setting matters only for hardware using the ARC/TDI design, which
> > > is not present in your Intel chipset.  Likewise, provided ehci-hcd is
> > > loaded first, it shouldn't make any difference whether uhci-hcd is
> > > loaded or not.
> > Well, I retest this.
> > But it seems to work
> 
> Best would be if you could send two usbmon traces, one showing the 
> problem and one showing what happens when uhci-hcd isn't loaded but 
> everything else is the same.  For each test, plug in the printer's USB 
> cable after starting the trace.
Will do soon.


> 
> And don't try to confuse matters by querying the printer status while 
> reloading its firmware.
Well, I suspected that there is some concurrent access from both usb
drivers, so I tried all options to crash it....


> Alan Stern
> 

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