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From: "Holger Hoffstätte" <holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com>
To: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>,
	Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
Subject: Re: [regression] external HDD in USB3 enclosure cannot be dynamically removed (Re: Linux 3.7.5)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:28:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <511B4EB1.9010708@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130212204224.GC8427@xanatos>

On 12.02.2013 21:42, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> [..]
> I think I see the issue.  Your host controller reports the Inactive
> state after a USB disconnect.  My host controllers go to the RxDetect
> state on a disconnect.
> 
> The patches that went into 3.8 and the stable kernels to better handle
> the Inactive state were not designed to handle a connected device going
> to the Inactive state.  I thought that would be a rare case, but
> apparently it's not.
> 
> There was a further set of patches queued for 3.9 to deal with connected
> devices going to the Inactive state, but they looked like they were too
> big for stable:
> 
> d3b9d7a USB: Fix connected device switch to Inactive state.
> a24a607 USB: Rip out recursive call on warm port reset.
> 2d4fa94 USB: Prepare for refactoring by adding extra udev checks.
> 0fe51aa USB: Don't use EHCI port sempahore for USB 3.0 hubs.
> 
> Can you retry with Greg's usb-next branch?
> 
> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git -b usb-next
> 
> If that fixes your problem, we should either get those additional
> patches into 3.8 and the stable trees, or do a revert of the whole
> series and just let 3.9 carry the full patchset.

Good news! This one does indeed work as expected - the device can be
removed and is gone for good. Upstream & Stable plz :)

thanks all!

Holger


  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-13  8:28 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
     [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 [this message]
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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