Re: annoying frequent overcurrent messages.

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Jul 12 2006 - 14:07:22 EST


Ar Mer, 2006-07-12 am 13:51 -0400, ysgrifennodd Dave Jones:
> Defective it may be, I'm not arguing that. But spewing hundreds of
> these an hour isn't going to make the user fix the problem (if they even can)
> any faster.
>
> *grumbles and goes to edit modprobe.conf*

dmidecode
pci svid/subdevice

submit patch

I agree entirely with the other Alan here, overcurrent is a serious item
with a potential severity not that far below "your cpu fan seems to have
stopped going round [Ok]"


If its a dodgy board it should be possible to id and blacklist its UHCI
controller


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