OK. I own a Renesas PCI-Card that offers 4 USB3-Ports and that worked well with Linux-Kernels up to 4.8. Beginning with kernel 4.9 it was not correctly initialized anymore and the problem still persists with kernel 4.16.2 that I have recently tested. After a failed start the PCI-situation looks like this: lspci -vv: 08:00.0 USB controller: Renesas Technology Corp. uPD720201 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev ff) (prog-if ff) !!! Unknown header type 7f Kernel modules: xhci_pci While after a correct start with kernel 4.1.43 it looks like this: 08:00.0 USB controller: Renesas Technology Corp. uPD720201 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 30 [XHCI]) Subsystem: Renesas Technology Corp. uPD720201 USB 3.0 Host Controller Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at f7ffe000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [70] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+ Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=8 Masked- Vector table: BAR=0 offset=00001000 PBA: BAR=0 offset=00001080 Capabilities: [a0] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 00 DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s unlimited, L1 unlimited ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset- SlotPowerLimit 0.000W DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported- RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+ MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes DevSta: CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend- LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <4us, L1 unlimited ClockPM+ Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp- LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- CommClk- ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt- DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis+, LTR+, OBFF Not Supported AtomicOpsCap: 32bit- 64bit- 128bitCAS- DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-, LTR-, OBFF Disabled AtomicOpsCtl: ReqEn- LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis- Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS- Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB, EqualizationComplete-, EqualizationPhase1- EqualizationPhase2-, EqualizationPhase3-, LinkEqualizationRequest- Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd Kernel modules: xhci_pci A dmesg of a failed start looks like this (kernel 4.16.2): [ 5.830809] 3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.014. [ 5.865021] Adaptec aacraid driver 1.2.1[50877]-custom [ 5.875015] megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.7 (Release Date: Sun Jul 16 00:01:03 EST 2006) [ 5.876503] megaraid: 2.20.5.1 (Release Date: Thu Nov 16 15:32:35 EST 2006) [ 5.882199] megasas: 07.704.04.00-rc1 [ 5.897111] qla2xxx [0000:00:00.0]-0005: : QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver: 10.00.00.05-k. [ 5.913090] Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI driver 11.4.0.6 [ 5.913091] Copyright (C) 2017 Broadcom. All Rights Reserved. The term "Broadcom" refers to Broadcom Limited and/or its subsidiaries. [ 5.921191] aic94xx: Adaptec aic94xx SAS/SATA driver version 1.0.3 loaded [ 5.934061] mpt3sas version 17.100.00.00 loaded [ 5.980214] usb-storage 2-1.7:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [ 5.980291] scsi host11: usb-storage 2-1.7:1.0 [ 5.980366] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [ 6.013120] xhci_hcd 0000:08:00.0: Resetting [ 6.073458] hrtimer: interrupt took 39229608 ns [ 7.001257] xhci_hcd 0000:08:00.0: timed out waiting for pending transaction; performing function level reset anyway [ 7.055139] scsi 11:0:0:0: Direct-Access TEAC FD-05PUW 3000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS [ 7.055433] sd 11:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg8 type 0 [ 7.087083] sd 11:0:0:0: Power-on or device reset occurred [ 7.151121] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 8.297249] xhci_hcd 0000:08:00.0: not ready 1123ms after FLR; waiting [ 9.385239] xhci_hcd 0000:08:00.0: not ready 2147ms after FLR; waiting [ 11.497251] xhci_hcd 0000:08:00.0: not ready 4195ms after FLR; waiting [ 15.849264] xhci_hcd 0000:08:00.0: not ready 8291ms after FLR; waiting [ 24.553223] xhci_hcd 0000:08:00.0: not ready 16483ms after FLR; waiting [ 41.449215] xhci_hcd 0000:08:00.0: not ready 32867ms after FLR; waiting [ 74.729236] xhci_hcd 0000:08:00.0: not ready 65635ms after FLR; giving up [ 74.819729] CE: hpet7 increased min_delta_ns to 20115 nsec [ 75.012202] xhci_hcd 0000:08:00.0: Refused to change power state, currently in D3 [ 75.062555] xhci_hcd 0000:08:00.0: xHCI Host Controller [ 75.062611] xhci_hcd 0000:08:00.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 [ 75.213420] xhci_hcd 0000:08:00.0: Host halt failed, -19 [ 75.213422] xhci_hcd 0000:08:00.0: can't setup: -19 [ 75.213424] xhci_hcd 0000:08:00.0: USB bus 3 deregistered [ 75.233630] xhci_hcd 0000:08:00.0: init 0000:08:00.0 fail, -19 [ 75.438438] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 [ 75.438533] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.37.0-ioctl (2017-09-20) initialised: dm... [ 75.470561] xor: measuring software checksum speed [ 75.480030] prefetch64-sse: 11800.000 MB/sec Sincerely, Stefan Kalis -- 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