[Fwd: [Bug 7431] New: ohci1394 Oops after a rmmod/modprobe cycle]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Nov 11 10:10:08 EST 2006


On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 00:07 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
> I wrote:
> > On  7 Nov, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 08:08 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > [...]
> >>> and it is the rmmod, not the insmod, that hangs the pismo.
> >>> Adding some mdelay to the remove function doesnt help either.
> >> 
> >> Tried not calling the pmac feature stuff at all in the rmmod ?
> > 
> > Olaf?
> > 
> >> I reckon there might be a problem with the cable power control on some
> >> old models like... the pismo :-)
> > 
> > Is there a way to detect affected machines or at least to blacklist
> > known broken machines?
> 
> Actually, shouldn't ohci1394_pci_remove enlcose the platform code into
> 
> 	if (machine_is(powermac)) {
> 		...
> 	}
> 
> like ohci1394_pci_suspend and ohci1394_pci_resume do?

Yes.

Ben.





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