USB locks up system -- WAS Re: shutdown or acpi problem
Mark R V Murray
markm at FreeBSD.org
Sun Nov 16 18:34:47 UTC 2014
> 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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