On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Larry Finger wrote:

> I could not do exactly the experiment that you wanted, as ehci-hcd was loaded 
> even though it was blacklisted. Rather than solve that problem, I generated a 
> kernel from just before commit adfa79d with ohci-hcd built in and ehci-hcd as 
> a 
> module. This one generated the errors, but they stopped when ehci-hcd loaded. 
> I 
> also tested a 3.8-rc1 kernel with ehci-hcd and ehcd-pci built in and ohci-hcd 
> as 
> a module. No errors for that one. Your hypothesis looks correct.
> 
> I hope there is some way to force ehci-pci to load as soon as ehci-hcd is 
> loaded, and before ohci-hcd loads, but if there is not, I know how to prevent 
> the errors on my system even though this solution won't help the users of 
> distro 
> kernels. At least this time the errors stop once all 3 modules are loaded, 
> and 
> the number of error outputs is limited.

This is now a userspace issue.  Perhaps a change to a udev rule will
prevent ohci-hcd from loading until ehci-pci is in place.  Or a change
to a startup script in your initramfs.  However the problem gets
solved, there doesn't seem to be much the kernel can do about it.

Alan Stern

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