Re: OHCI Host Controler Died

From: Greg KH (greg_at_kroah.com)
Date: 09/10/03

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    Date:	Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:19:49 -0700
    To: Remo Inverardi <invi@your.toilet.ch>
    
    

    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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