Hi,
David Brownell:
> On Tuesday 25 July 2006 7:54 am, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> >
> > > This is the perennial "we have an OHCI interface on a PCMCIA card. We
> > > pull the card. The kernel crashes / hangs / whatever" problem.
> > >
> > > [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] -- details below.
>
> Why do you say "perennial" as if this is a problem that's been reported
> often? If it had been, surely I'd have heard of it ... yet these lock
> debug tools are new, and ISTR aren't free of reporting false positives.
> Such problems could _not_ have been reported before 2.6.18-early ...
The perennial problem I was referring to is that removing an OHCI by
ejecting the PCMCIA card it's on is fragile. *That* has certainly been
reported before.
> Plus, this trace clearly shows the issue is with UHCI, not OHCI!
It's very interesting that the report showed up just as I was pulling
the thing - but it could of course be a coincidence..?
I'll investigate more; that's certainly not the only strange thing that
happened, just the most visible one.
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