Re: OHCI Host Controler Died

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:16:49AM +0200, Remo Inverardi wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> >Great, go bug vmware then :)
> 
> I will -- but ...
> 
> I was under the impression that all of VMware's USB code is running in 
> user space. Running "grep -ir usb ." in VMware's modules/source 
> directory did not return any hits, so this assumption is probably correct.

I'm under that impression too, but due to them requiring kernel drivers
to support their program, I can not be sure.

> This does look like a kernel bug to me, since it should not be possible 
> to crash the OHCI driver from user space.

I agree.  And if you can figure out how it does that, we would really
appreciate it :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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