Re: [2.6.27-rc] USB storage: hangs and massive dmesg spews

From: Alan Stern
Date: Fri Aug 08 2008 - 18:11:11 EST


On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> 4) a huge amount of dmesg spew followed. at the time of this writing,
> the following spew has been passed to dmesg over TWO HUNDRED times:

> It is completely silly to fill my dmesg buffer many times over, with the
> same basic information. /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs is
> completely irrelevant here, you need spew limiting in addition to fixing
> the USB storage hang problem.

Sorry, I meant to say earlier that the usb-storage problem is fixed in
-rc2. I can't speak for the "spew" issue; that's somebody else's
department. :-)

Alan Stern

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