On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 02:35:13PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > Otherwise, this sounds like the same problem we had years ago with UHCI > > > and USB printers, right? > > > > That's probably before I joined the linux-usb mailing list, so I don't > > know that story. > > Basically, you plugged in a USB printer, it took down your PCI bus by > saturating it with "empty" USB messages. Happened back in the > mid-to-late 1990's. There was some major reworks of the UHCI hardware > in order to resolve this issue. FSBR. And it was never really solved in hardware, it's a flaw in the UHCI design. Numerous workarounds in drivers and devices still exist. -- Vojtech Pavlik Director SuSE Labs -- 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
