[PATCH] USB: print message when device is rejected due to insufficient power

2.6.16 introduces USB power budgeting in the Linux kernel, and since then, a
fair number of users have observed that some of their devices no longer work in
unpowered hubs (this is not a bug, the devices claim that they need more than
100mA).

The very least we can do is print an informational message to the kernel log
when this happens, otherwise it is not at all clear why the device was not
accepted.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
index 1b1846e6473b..89ebe6a23a90 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
@@ -1176,6 +1176,7 @@ static int choose_configuration(struct usb_device *udev)
 {
         int i;
         int num_configs;
+        int insufficient_power = 0;
         struct usb_host_config *c, *best;
 
         best = NULL;
@@ -1228,8 +1229,10 @@ static int choose_configuration(struct usb_device *udev)
                  */
 
                 /* Rule out configs that draw too much bus current */
-                if (c->desc.bMaxPower * 2 > udev->bus_mA)
+                if (c->desc.bMaxPower * 2 > udev->bus_mA) {
+                        insufficient_power++;
                         continue;
+                }
 
                 /* If the first config's first interface is COMM/2/0xff
                  * (MSFT RNDIS), rule it out unless Linux has host-side
@@ -1263,6 +1266,11 @@ static int choose_configuration(struct usb_device *udev)
                         best = c;
         }
 
+        if (insufficient_power > 0)
+                dev_info(&udev->dev, "rejected %d configuration%s "
+                        "due to insufficient available bus power\n",
+                        insufficient_power, plural(insufficient_power));
+
         if (best) {
                 i = best->desc.bConfigurationValue;
                 dev_info(&udev->dev,