On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Oliver Neukum wrote: > On Mon, 2014-07-14 at 07:50 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > So if I have hubs with the same "broken" port, I'll only get one > > message? What if I have 2 "broken" ports, I'll keep getting the > > messages? > > Well, hubs are not a problem. > > > I'm not suggesting that we have a "broken port" flag per port for each > > hub, but this really seems like it is just a half-fix for a specific > > piece of broken hardware :( > > The hardware in question cannot be fixed. Unfortunately > the problem is not as uncommon as one might wish. Yes, > I could come up with a more sophisticated fix for generic > brokenness, but what for? On the other hand there is a > significant number of broken systems out there. Maybe a "error during connect" counter in the usb_port structure wouldn't be such a bad idea. There have been other occasions where users logs have been spammed by repeated failures during device initialization attempts. Of course, then the question is: How long should the hub driver wait before trying the port again? Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
