PCI: How to find if BIOS has already enabled the device

[Parag Warudkar]

I am trying to trace the root cause of an annoying problem with a USB Storage 
device - 

My laptop's BIOS supports booting from USB devices. I have attached an 
external USB HDD to a USB 2.0 port. If I boot Linux with the HDD attached and 
powered on, load of OHCI-HCD module hangs the machine for around 2 minutes - 
after that it recovers and all is fine. I have tried different distros 
without luck, but while installing debian, I figured out that the hang 
happens after ohci-hcd calls pci_enable_device() for the USB controller.

This does not happen when the boot is complete. I.e. if I attach the HDD after 
boot is complete (BIOS did not get a chance to enable it beforehand) load of 
ohci-hcd (during and after boot) does not hang the machine.

I think since the machine supports booting from USB HDD, the BIOS must be 
enabling the USB controller and attached device early during boot, and when 
ohci-hcd tries to re-enable it, it doesn't like it and leads to a hang. 

My question - Is it possible to detect if the USB controller is already 
enabled and skip enabling it second time?

Thanks

Parag
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