Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: serious 2.6 bug in USB subsystem?

[David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>]

>>>>> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:23:54 -0800, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> said:

  David.B> David Mosberger wrote:
  >> After spending a bit more time on this, it looks to me like the
  >> keyboard is crashing the system very early on.

  David.B> I think there are some devices that choke the HID
  David.B> code;

And nobody is alarmed by this?  Surely crashing the kernel by plugging
in a USB device must be considered a MUST-FIX item.  Perhaps I missed
something, but I never saw this mentioned before.

  David.B> I recall someone reporting a mouse that did the same kind of
  David.B> thing.  Do other kinds of keyboards do the same thing, or is
  David.B> it just that one?

Ugh, I only have about half a dozen or so different types of USB
devices (and even fewer of them are HID devices), so my experience
isn't exactly a statistically valid sample.  Having said that, out of
that 6 or so devices, that particular keyboard is the only one causing
crashes.  However, note that it works (mostly) fine under 2.4 and even
if they keyboard were total crap, it certainly shouldn't crash the
kernel.

	--david