Hi, On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 06:54:43PM +0100, Guido Trentalancia wrote: > Hello ! > > I get a kernel failure with the following backtrace during the initial > kernel load at startup. I am using an FTDI USB2serial converter. > > Any idea on how to avoid this ? I've seen the same thing _sometimes_ with the one FTDI adapter that I'm currently using (and strictly spoken that's a WARN_ON, not an OOPS), but not sure whether this still occurs after my recent Broadcom-specific USB host controller driver fix. > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > WARNING: at drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c:406 serial_write_room > +0x70/0x80 [usbserial]() > Hardware name: S1730 > Modules linked in: nfsd lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss exportfs sunrpc > ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 > ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 dm_multipath uinput arc4 ecb snd_cs4281 > snd_rawmidi b43 snd_ac97_codec mac80211 cfg80211 ac97_bus snd_seq_dummy > rfkill snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event ssb snd_seq mmc_core snd_pcm_oss > snd_mixer_oss ppdev snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_opl3_lib snd_seq_device > snd_timer snd_hwdep ftdi_sio snd parport_pc uvcvideo usbserial videodev > v4l1_compat parport i2c_piix4 pcspkr i2c_core yenta_socket rtl8150 > rsrc_nonstatic soundcore ata_generic pata_acpi ehci_hcd [last unloaded: > freq_table] > Pid: 4, comm: events/0 Tainted: G W 2.6.32.2 #1 > Call Trace: > [<c0439371>] warn_slowpath_common+0x71/0x100 > [<ccede4b0>] ? serial_write_room+0x70/0x80 [usbserial] > [<ccede4b0>] ? serial_write_room+0x70/0x80 [usbserial] > [<c0439415>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20 > [<ccede4b0>] serial_write_room+0x70/0x80 [usbserial] > [<c0612c4b>] ? tty_put_char+0x2b/0x30 > [<c0619ea8>] tty_write_room+0x18/0x20 > [<c06168c5>] process_echoes+0x45/0x2b0 That's the one here in drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: static int serial_write_room(struct tty_struct *tty) { struct usb_serial_port *port = tty->driver_data; dbg("%s - port %d", __func__, port->number); WARN_ON(!port->port.count); /* pass on to the driver specific version of this function */ return port->serial->type->write_room(tty); } I'm really not at all certain what could have caused this problem, but did you try other USB configurations? Such as using self-powered external hubs etc. Also, do you get further USB-related error values in the dmesg log? This error could probably result from not entirely successful USB device enumeration etc. Andreas Mohr -- 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