Excessive USB polling

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mahdi · Post by **mahdi** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:29 am

After building a new kernel (2.6.24-gentoo-r8) for device mapper support and rebooting it is constantly finding a new USB device. I think it might be from my MMC device that I had working once but hasn't in a year for some odd reason that has never really bothered me too much. But getting this output constantly filling up the message log is not going to work...

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usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 124
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 125
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 126
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 127
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3

It will go up to 127 and loop back to 2 nonstop, it looks like there might be one made per flash of lights on the MMC. The only changes I made to the kernel config was for TrueCrypt support...and changed CPU from K7 to K8 since I've have a CPU upgrade since the last build.
Device Drivers --> Multi-device support (RAID and LVM) --->
[*] Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)
<*> Device mapper support
<*> Crypt target support

Everything appears to be working properly, USB devices are handled the same as before, only difference is this insane finding a new device loop. Any suggestions on where to look for what could be causing this?

pappy_mcfae · Post by **pappy_mcfae** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:07 am

Do things work with an older kernel? If so, did you do make oldconfig to update the kernel? If not, try that.

Blessed be!
Pappy

mahdi · Post by **mahdi** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:45 pm

Found it.
I tested out all my old kernels and found this was introduced after 2.6.22-gentoo-r2 which I previously enabled the option over it's default of being disabled.

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/dev/hidraw raw HID device support (HIDRAW) [N/y/?]

Having HIDRAW caused the HID discovery to get stuck in a loop, not sure exactly but that was the problem.

pappy_mcfae · Post by **pappy_mcfae** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 5:18 pm

Cool. That's a good one to know. Please mark as solved.

Blessed be!
Pappy

desultory · Post by **desultory** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 5:49 am

mahdi wrote:Having HIDRAW caused the HID discovery to get stuck in a loop, not sure exactly but that was the problem.

Please report the bug in the canonical fashion.

mahdi · Post by **mahdi** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:51 pm

Looks like i was wrong about that, the problem came back...I'll let you know what I can find and will take any suggestions also