Re: USB locks up system -- WAS Re: shutdown or acpi problem

From: Mark R V Murray <markm_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 18:34:42 +0000
> On 16 Nov 2014, at 18:31, Ian Lepore <ian_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> The point I'm trying to make here is that you trimmed away the important
> part of the prior messages and replied only to the part where Steve's
> debugging efforts were somewhat speculating.  The non-speculative part
> was where he bisected the failure to an exact commit:
> 
>>>> The problem is caused
>>>> by r273872.  This is the recent random device patch.  I have no
>>>> idea why removing a usb device would cause the system to lock
>>>> up other than random is probably trying to harvest some entropy.

I’m sorry my commit caused the problem.

I’m also trying to find out why, but I don’t know enough about USB or
mass-storage devices to know why, so this may take me a while. In the
meanwhile, I’ll try to help by pointing out things I do know.

M
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Mark R V Murray
Received on Sun Nov 16 2014 - 17:34:47 UTC

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