On Friday 29 August 2008, you wrote: > Maybe you haven't enabled anything special, but something sure is > running. It appears to be probing your USB devices every 5 seconds. > You might be able to find out what it is by adding > > printk(KERN_INFO "usbdev open by %s\n", current->comm); > > to usbdev_open() in drivers/usb/core/devio.c. Thanks a lot. That identified the culprit: brltty (which I only have installed for some very rare testing with the Debian Installer). I'll file a bug in the Debian BTS as I know the Debian maintainer has very good contacts with the upstream developers. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html