On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Dan Aloni wrote: > You are right, I looked over this state with kdb, and usb-storage > waited in usb_stor_bulk_transfer_sg, which does pass GFP_NOIO > at this scenario. ...
> BTW, soft-rebooting the machine in that state made the USB > storage device (LEXAR, JD LIGHTNING II) inaccessible to the > BIOS. I had to do a complete power cycle in order or the BIOS > to see it again. That's the fault of the BIOS and/or the Lexar device. The BIOS ought to do a complete reset of the USB controller and a reset of the device. If the device remains unusable after that, there isn't anything we can do about it. Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
