On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:36:21AM +0100, wzab wrote: > The following messages were displayed right after I connected a FT2232H > based dongle to the system. Shortly after that the system became > unresponsive and I had to hard-reset it. Does the patch below solve this problem for you? thanks, greg k-h diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c index f770415..a80f51a 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c @@ -1763,7 +1763,8 @@ static int ftdi_8u2232c_probe(struct usb_serial *serial) dbg("%s", __func__); - if (strcmp(udev->manufacturer, "CALAO Systems") == 0) + if ((udev->manufacturer) && + (strcmp(udev->manufacturer, "CALAO Systems") == 0)) return ftdi_jtag_probe(serial); return 0; -- 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