Although I got rid of any of FireWire devices a year ago, I'm adding this ticket for a reference. Following appeared in dmesg after today's kernel update to 4.9.72-gentoo version: [ 6.897450] firewire_ohci 0002:20:0e.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 8.156271] firewire_ohci 0002:20:0e.0: failed to read phy reg 4 [ 8.158339] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.9.72-gentoo #1 [ 8.160386] Call Trace: [ 8.162432] [ef451cc0] [c05199b0] read_phy_reg.isra.9+0xc8/0xe0 (unreliable) [ 8.164563] [ef451ce0] [c0519b3c] update_phy_reg+0x34/0xac [ 8.166646] [ef451d00] [c0519bf4] ohci_update_phy_reg+0x40/0x64 [ 8.168752] [ef451d20] [c051c884] ohci_enable+0x254/0x5c0 [ 8.170820] [ef451d50] [c050ed2c] fw_card_add+0x60/0xa4 [ 8.172867] [ef451d70] [c0519478] pci_probe+0x5f4/0x6b0 [ 8.174913] [ef451db0] [c02f07f4] pci_device_probe+0xbc/0x130 [ 8.176936] [ef451de0] [c049005c] driver_probe_device+0x190/0x2d8 [ 8.178945] [ef451e10] [c0490270] __driver_attach+0xcc/0xd0 [ 8.180968] [ef451e30] [c048e034] bus_for_each_dev+0x68/0xb4 [ 8.183004] [ef451e60] [c048eb3c] bus_add_driver+0x148/0x22c [ 8.185066] [ef451e80] [c04908c8] driver_register+0x88/0x130 [ 8.187142] [ef451e90] [c0a6e07c] do_one_initcall+0xb0/0x170 [ 8.189221] [ef451f00] [c0a6e29c] kernel_init_freeable+0x160/0x1f4 [ 8.191300] [ef451f30] [c00044b4] kernel_init+0x18/0x124 [ 8.193327] [ef451f40] [c001290c] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64 [ 8.195307] --- interrupt: 0 at (null) LR = (null) [ 8.199209] firewire_ohci: probe of 0002:20:0e.0 failed with error -16 Reproducible: Always
It is sad to read that you have problems with the software. The situation seems to be a bit more complicate and requires some analysis. We can not help you efficiently via bug tracker. The bug tracker aims rather on specific problems in .ebuilds and less on individual systems. I have had very good experience on the gentoo IRC [1] with questions like this. Of course there are also forums and mailing lists [2,3]. I hope you understand, that I will close the bug here therefore and wish you good luck on one of the mentioned channels [4]. Please reopen the ticket in order to provide an indication for an specific error in an ebuild or any gentoo related product. Also, please put the full package name in the title. [1] https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/irc-channels/ [2] https://forums.gentoo.org/ [3] https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/mailing-lists/all-lists.html [4] https://www.gentoo.org/support/
