On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:25:37AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > A warning message that was recently added to the PM core has alerted > us to a potential problem in usb-storage. Although the USB interface > is in the runtime active state when the probe routine starts, until > the runtime-PM usage count is incremented nothing forces it to remain > active. The increment doesn't happen until after scsi_add_host() is > called, and that call causes the interface to go into runtime suspend. > > Although this hasn't caused anything to go wrong for anyone, as far as > I know, it still is a bug. > > To prevent this from happening, move the existing call to > usb_autopm_get_interface_no_resume() up from its current position to > before scsi_add_host() is called. > > Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@xxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@xxxxxxxxx> > CC: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> It's a bit late for 4.8 for this, can we wait for 4.9-rc1? This doesn't apply to my usb-next branch, so things have changed in this area, did they solve the issue already? thanks, greg k-h -- 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
