This, of course, doesn't deal with outside cases.
It's common knowledge that a lot of equipment is running out of spec all
the time because of cheap components, bad BIOS's etc. As an example, my
Asus L4500R laptop (with the latest ASUS BIOS) ALWAYS shows "over-current"
under Linux on all *internal* USB ports the second ANYTHING is plugged in
(and I have nearly 50 different USB devices of different types,
manufacturers and quality).
The suggestion to simply stop over-current ports from working would
immediately disable all USB ports, including any powered hubs that I plug
into them, I assume. I can't update the BIOS any further to stop this and
if I could I doubt it would solve the problem (it looks like cheap
hardware to me). Therefore, you've just removed all my perfectly
functional USB capability because the best BIOS I can use reports an
incorrect error (hey, what's new?).
Windows XP, incidentally, runs flawlessly with all USB devices without
power warnings on this laptop. This may well be fixable somewhere else,
it may even be a bug in the internal USB code for my laptop which may be
help in hunting such bugs down. However, anything like this should be
optional and not with some convoluted command-line echo, but by as simple
binary switch accesible to userspace. I know what I'm doing, if I choose
to ignore the error, that's my problem. The fact is, if I don't ignore
this particular error, my laptop loses all USB functionality. Taint my
kernel if you want (that's what the new userspace taint is for, is it
not?) but I need to use the USB ports that I've paid a lot of money to
have and that DO work perfectly if given a nudge.
Spec's are lovely and all, but we all know that if real hardware confirmed
to the spec's all the time that the Linux kernel would be about half it's
current size.
Lee Dowling
ICT Technician
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