On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 22:15 -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > In general not much can be done about over-current problems, other than > unplugging the device that's drinking too much current. In my case it is apparently generated by that particular (builtin and UHCI) hub itself (as there are no devices attached to any ports at all). Does that change anything? > In my > experience these conditions are almost always very short-lived (a > fraction of a second), in which case no recovery action is needed. > > [...] > > Maybe we should delay for 500 ms and then check the port status again. > It would make sense to log an error message if the over-current status > persists, otherwise dev_dbg would be fine. Nobody stepped in to comment. Perhaps I should try to draft a patch. Are you thinking about something that uses the delayed work interface (ie, the interface now already used for hub->init_work and hub->leds)? Paul -- 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