Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: [2.5] EHCI HID keyboard not unloaded at reboot time ? | From | Nicolas Mailhot <> | Date | 18 Feb 2003 22:11:14 +0100 |
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Le dim 16/02/2003 à 22:28, Pavel Machek a écrit : > Hi! > > > This is a question related to : > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9 > > > > Basically I have a usb keyboard plugged on an external USB2 hub. Using > > a monolithic ehci/hid kernel I can get it to work in 2.5. It's also used > > in usb1 mode by the bios and the bootloader. > > > > However when I shut down or reboot from 2.5, I loose keyboard support > > in the bios/bootloader/linux 2.4 (used to loose it in linux 2.5 also but > > recent ehci enhancements enable 2.5 to recover it). Nothing short of a > > PSU stop (neither reset nor stop button works) will recover it. > > Well, if reset does not work, it looks like hw bug ;-). OTOH this > might be quite easy to workaround in sw. What happens if you unplug > and replug the keyboard?
Hey, thanks for the reply.
Turns out I was right about the diagnostic. 2.5 *did* *not* *unload* *ehci*. So after the reboot all usb1-aware systems (bios, linux 2.4, etc) found usb components that expected usb2 commands. David Brownell send me a patch that forced ehci unload at shutdown (via a reboot notifier) and all's been well since. So it was a real 2.5 bug.
Sure the hardware could have moped up usb remains better, but since other evil OSes cleanup their usb stack correctly, I guess they didn't bother (plus I suspect it would have made boot times a bit longer).
Anyway, closing one of the first ten bugzilla bugs at last one feels very good:)
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