On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 12:38, Alan Stern wrote:
> On 2 Jun 2004, Len Brown wrote:
> 
> > Has anybody seen USB interrupts increase
> > with no USB devices attached?  Seems to be
> > related to Ethernet activity on a different IRQ.
> > 
> > Only in IOAPIC mode; only on the VIA133/266 chipsets.
> > 
> > http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2243
> > 
> >
> 
> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2739

nvidia binary driver.

> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2752

opposite problem -- no interrupts.  Seen afer S3 resume.

> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-devel&m=108573269323454&w=2

nvidia binary driver.

> (Plenty of others, but I haven't kept them handy.)
> 
> Unforunately I can't answer your question.  People post here only when 
> they think the problem is USB-related.  Turning off one of the USB IRQ 
> lines gets their attention.  But if there aren't any USB devices attached, 
> no one would think to send a bug report here.
> 
> If you're interested, I can explain why 2.6.4 started masking the 
> USBSTS_HCH bit from the status register before testing whether to handle 
> the interrupt.

USBSTS_HCH doesn't sound like a valid interrupt indicator anyway right?

> If you do find a resolution, please post a pointer to it on the 
> linux-usb-devel list.  Until then, I'll recommend that people boot with 
> "noirqdebug".

as a workaround, yes.  otherwise, please encourage them to file a bug
and that perhaps with added information a better picture of the root
cause will emerge.

thanks,
-Len




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