Re: Hardware bug in Intel USB-2 hub?

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On Wed, 11 Jun 2014, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 11:11 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Toralf Förster wrote:
> > 
> > > On 06/19/2013 09:03 PM, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > > Sarah:
> > > > correctly and one didn't.  Regardless, it was surprising to see
> > > > Toralf's report that an Intel hub doesn't work right.  I don't have any
> > > > machines with a comparable chipset, so I can't test one of those
> > > > integrated hubs directly.
> > > > 
> > > > Can somebody at Intel look into this?
> > > > 
> > > > Alan Stern
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > Just tried kernel 3.15. - issue does still exists
> > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59011
> > 
> > Not surprising, since it is a bug in the hardware.
> 
> Alan,
> 
> I don't like this, but it might be enough to simply
> revert 0aa2832dd0d9d8609fd8f15139bc7572541a1215.
> I am afraid we have to deal with real hardware, not specs.

And I'm afraid you're right.  It's a shame, because part of the reason 
I wrote that patch (although it wasn't mentioned in the description) 
was to prevent a class of bugs involving races between suspend and 
resume.  But those bugs were largely theoretical, and the "no 
regreesions" rule takes precedence.

Alan Stern

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