Re: [ 12/75] USB: EHCI: work around silicon bug in Intels EHCIcontrollers

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Mar 20 2013 - 16:07:48 EST


On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:44:30PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2013-03-19 22:00 +0100, Alan Stern wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >
> >> On 2013-03-19 21:10 +0100, Alan Stern wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> > In what way is resume broken?
> >> >>
> >> >> The kernel comes back, but the screen is black. Manually switching VT's
> >> >> is possible, and if I type something I can see it on the screen, but
> >> >> there is no response and the cursor does not blink. It looks as if the
> >> >> VT is not switched backed on resume, and userspace tasks are not
> >> >> restarted. Sysrq combinations apparently work, but produce no output.
> >> >
> >> > Are there any other problems? For example, even before you do a
> >> > suspend, if you type Alt-SysRq-W do you see any processes listed?
> >>
> >> No.
> >>
> >> > There was another report on the linux-usb mailing list today of this
> >> > same patch causing the khubd task to hang. I'm thinking that you might
> >> > be facing a similar problem.
> >>
> >> Maybe, but before the suspend everything seems to be normal.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, does the patch posted here:
> >
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=136361874807411&w=2
> >
> > make any difference?
>
> It fixes the problem for me, thanks. :-)

Ok, I'll postpone this patch for the next stable release, in time for
the fix to be put in at the same time.

thanks,

greg k-h
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