On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2016-09-20 at 14:11 +0200, Carsten Mattner wrote: > >> 4.8-rc5 was fine, but 4.8-rc6 and 4.8-rc7 on a Lenovo Thinkpad x220 report this > >> warning or error (cannot tell) anytime a USB mass storage device is inserted > >> into a usb port (2.0 or 3.0): > >> > >> runtime PM trying to activate child device host6 but parent > >> (2-1.2:1.0) is not active > > > > I see no obvious culprit. Could you bisect? > > I need the machine for so cannot do too many compile and reboot > cycles, but I've confirmed that the error message is triggered back > in 4.8-rc2. > > No such thing in 4.7.4 and I'm now back in lts-4.7.4 to get work done. I suspect the problem has been there all along, but it simply wasn't reported until commit 71723f95463d ("PM / runtime: print error when activating a child to unactive parent") was merged in 4.8-rc1. Does this patch get rid of the error message? Alan Stern Index: usb-4.x/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c =================================================================== --- usb-4.x.orig/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c +++ usb-4.x/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c @@ -1070,17 +1070,18 @@ int usb_stor_probe2(struct us_data *us) result = usb_stor_acquire_resources(us); if (result) goto BadDevice; + + usb_autopm_get_interface_no_resume(us->pusb_intf); snprintf(us->scsi_name, sizeof(us->scsi_name), "usb-storage %s", dev_name(&us->pusb_intf->dev)); result = scsi_add_host(us_to_host(us), dev); if (result) { dev_warn(dev, "Unable to add the scsi host\n"); - goto BadDevice; + goto AddHostFailed; } /* Submit the delayed_work for SCSI-device scanning */ - usb_autopm_get_interface_no_resume(us->pusb_intf); set_bit(US_FLIDX_SCAN_PENDING, &us->dflags); if (delay_use > 0) @@ -1090,7 +1091,9 @@ int usb_stor_probe2(struct us_data *us) return 0; /* We come here if there are any problems */ -BadDevice: + AddHostFailed: + usb_autopm_put_interface_no_suspend(us->pusb_intf); + BadDevice: usb_stor_dbg(us, "storage_probe() failed\n"); release_everything(us); return result; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html