Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753828AbZCHQ6p (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Mar 2009 12:58:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752868AbZCHQ6f (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Mar 2009 12:58:35 -0400 Received: from netrider.rowland.org ([192.131.102.5]:40370 "HELO netrider.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752845AbZCHQ6e (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Mar 2009 12:58:34 -0400 Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 12:58:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@netrider.rowland.org To: Maxim Levitsky cc: Greg KH , , Subject: Re: [BUG] Loading both ehci-hcd and uhci-hcd drivers causes my printer to fail In-Reply-To: <1236528558.11774.50.camel@maxim-laptop> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1829 Lines: 43 On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > > No, adding a dependency won't work because it is valid to load > > uhci-hcd without ehci-hcd. The only time a problem occurs is if you > > load both of them in the wrong order. (And in fact it's pretty rare > > for that to cause a real problem -- mostly you just get some annoying > > messages in the log.) > But since it can cause a problem, this has to be somehow automatically > fixed isn't it? Can it cause a problem? I'm not so sure -- it depends on what you mean by "problem". One person complained forcefully just because he didn't like all the extra "disconnect" messages in the system log, even though everything worked perfectly. > For example how to I ensure the correct order with udev? You can't. But you can add rules to /etc/modprobe.conf to insure that ehci-hcd is always loaded before uhci-hcd. > > CONFIG_USB_EHCI_ROOT_HUB_TT shouldn't make any difference at all. > > That setting matters only for hardware using the ARC/TDI design, which > > is not present in your Intel chipset. Likewise, provided ehci-hcd is > > loaded first, it shouldn't make any difference whether uhci-hcd is > > loaded or not. > Well, I retest this. > But it seems to work Best would be if you could send two usbmon traces, one showing the problem and one showing what happens when uhci-hcd isn't loaded but everything else is the same. For each test, plug in the printer's USB cable after starting the trace. And don't try to confuse matters by querying the printer status while reloading its firmware. Alan Stern -- 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/