When using USB serial console, there is an infinite loop on shutdown. The console fills with the error message: ttyUSB0 - error submitting urb: -22 It seems that writing the error message is causing the error, which cause the message, which causes the error, ... The following is needed to avoid the infinite loop. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> --- a/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c 2012-01-10 10:56:58.667176726 -0800 +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c 2012-01-16 09:37:26.754919670 -0800 @@ -217,8 +217,6 @@ retry: clear_bit(i, &port->write_urbs_free); result = usb_submit_urb(urb, GFP_ATOMIC); if (result) { - dev_err(&port->dev, "%s - error submitting urb: %d\n", - __func__, result); set_bit(i, &port->write_urbs_free); spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags); port->tx_bytes -= count; -- 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