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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Holger Hoffstaette <holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 3.7.5
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:39:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130128143907.GA2940@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2013.01.28.11.42.16.556318@googlemail.com>

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:42:16PM +0100, Holger Hoffstaette wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:56:58 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > I'm announcing the release of the 3.7.5 kernel.
> 
> Apologies for being late but I'm afraid I just found at least one
> regression in this release.
> 
> I have an external HDD in an USB3 enclosure for the occasional backup. I
> turn it on, it gets registered as sdX, I mount it/use it/unmount it and
> turn it off, which worked fine with kernels including 3.7.4.
> With 3.7.5 the kernel seems no longer notified of the changed device power
> status; nothing in dmesg and the device stays in the list of SCSI devices
> as e.g. shown by lsscsi. This is repeatable. Turning the device back
> on/using it works fine, it's just that I cannot dynamically remove it any
> longer.
> 
> I cannot run a bisect at the moment, but reading the changelog points
> to a few USB and libata related changes. I hope this helps.

If you could run 'git bisect' to determine which patch causes this
problem, that would be wonderful.

Also, does 3.8-rc5 work for you properly or not on this hardware?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-28 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-28  4:56 Linux 3.7.5 Greg KH
2013-01-28  4:57 ` Greg KH
     [not found] ` <pan.2013.01.28.11.42.16.556318@googlemail.com>
2013-01-28 14:39   ` Greg KH [this message]
     [not found]     ` <pan.2013.01.28.20.33.44.918987@googlemail.com>
2013-01-28 20:46       ` [regression] external HDD in USB3 enclosure cannot be dynamically removed (Re: Linux 3.7.5) Jonathan Nieder
2013-02-12  0:40         ` Sarah Sharp
2013-02-12  0:54           ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-02-12  8:36             ` Holger Hoffstätte
2013-02-12 10:35           ` Holger Hoffstätte
2013-02-12 20:42             ` Sarah Sharp
2013-02-13  8:28               ` Holger Hoffstätte
2013-02-13 17:16                 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2013-02-13 19:33                   ` Sarah Sharp
2013-02-13 20:04                     ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2013-02-13 21:08                       ` Sarah Sharp
2013-02-13 21:31                         ` Greg KH
2013-02-13 22:12                           ` Sarah Sharp
2013-03-01 16:48                             ` Greg KH
2013-03-05 22:10                               ` Stable backport request, Was: " Sarah Sharp
2013-03-06  2:11                                 ` Greg KH

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