Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752805Ab3CUUHA (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:07:00 -0400 Received: from [65.55.88.12] ([65.55.88.12]:6422 "EHLO tx2outboundpool.messaging.microsoft.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752695Ab3CUUG6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:06:58 -0400 X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:160.33.194.231;KIP:(null);UIP:(null);IPV:NLI;H:usculsndmail04v.am.sony.com;RD:mail04.sonyusa.com;EFVD:NLI X-SpamScore: -5 X-BigFish: VPS-5(zzbb2dI98dI936eI1432I14ffIzz1f42h1ee6h1de0h1202h1e76h1d1ah1d2ahzzz2fh2a8h668h839h947hd25hf0ah10d2h1288h12a5h12a9h12bdh137ah13b6h1441h1537h153bh162dh1631h1758h1765h18e1h190ch1946h19c3h1b0ah1155h) Message-ID: <514B67EE.8030404@am.sony.com> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:05:02 -0700 From: Frank Rowand Reply-To: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Stern CC: "Rowand, Frank" , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "linux-usb@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , "balbi@ti.com" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "steve.glendinning@smsc.com" Subject: Re: [BUG] bisected: PandaBoard smsc95xx ethernet driver error from USB timeout References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginatorOrg: am.sony.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1899 Lines: 46 On 03/21/13 07:41, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, Frank Rowand wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Not quite sure quite where the problem is (USB, OMAP, smsc95xx driver, other???), >> so casting the nets wide... >> >> The PandaBoard frequently fails to boot with an eth0 error when mounting >> the root file system via NFS (ethernet driver fails due to a USB timeout; >> no ethernet means NFS won't work). A typical set of error messages is: >> >> [ 3.264373] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0: usb_probe_interface >> [ 3.269500] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0: usb_probe_interface - got id >> [ 3.275543] smsc95xx v1.0.4 >> [ 8.078674] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0: eth0: register 'smsc95xx' at usb-ehci-omap.0-1.1, smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet, 82:b9:1d:fa:67:0d >> [ 8.091003] hub 1-1:1.0: state 7 ports 5 chg 0000 evt 0002 >> [ 13.509918] usb 1-1.1: swapper/0 timed out on ep0out len=0/4 >> [ 13.515869] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0: eth0: Failed to write register index 0x00000108 >> [ 13.523559] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0: eth0: Failed to write ADDRL: -110 >> [ 13.529998] IP-Config: Failed to open eth0 >> >> I have bisected this to: >> >> commit 18aafe64d75d0e27dae206cacf4171e4e485d285 >> Author: Alan Stern >> Date: Wed Jul 11 11:23:04 2012 -0400 >> >> USB: EHCI: use hrtimer for the I/O watchdog > > I don't understand how that commit could cause a timeout unless there > are at least two other bugs present in your system. Yes, I would not be at all surprised if this commit merely exposes a problem in other code. That is why I included so many different people and subsystems on the email distribution list. < snip > -Frank -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/