linux-kernel - Re: Null Pointer BUG in uhci

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Date:	Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:43:35 -0500
From:	"Michael S. Zick" <lkml@...ethan.org>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Null Pointer BUG in uhci_hcd

On Tue July 7 2009, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Michael S. Zick wrote:
> 
> > Got it.
> > Anything that gives me something other than a dead machine
> > with a glowing power-on light is forward progress.
> > 
> > Will give this patch a try today and report back.
> > 
> > At the moment am running the machine without either USB driver loaded.
> > Just to see if they are contributing to the problems.
> 
> It looks like there's a serious problem in your UHCI hardware.  
> According to the log you posted, it's not working at all.
> 

I am using the x86-generic drivers - -

There are VIA-device specific drivers in other arch trees,
(arm?, powerpc?) - I haven't compared them to the x86-generic
to see if they had to do something specific for 1106:3038, 1106:3104

Any idea if those drivers are "long dead" or still in use?

Mike
> Of course, that's no excuse for an oops.
> 
> Alan Stern
> 
> 
> 


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