Re: [Bug] [Sony VAIO SVT15117CXS] USB 2.0 ports not working with any USB device

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I have narrowed it down to changes from 2.6.39.4  to 3.0.0

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, Kevin Archer wrote:
>
>> reading https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection now....
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Kevin Archer <kevin.archer88@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > yes they were plugged in.
>> > Bisection?
>
> Indeed.
>
> The only way I can think of to explain what you saw is if there is some
> switch controlling the connections between the USB ports in the
> computer case and the internal hubs.  The "lsusb -v" output clearly
> stated that nothing was attached to those hubs, even though you had
> plugged various devices into those ports.
>
> On the other hand, the only thing I know of in the kernel which might
> affect such a switch is the xhci-hcd driver.  It's possible that
> unbinding xhci-hcd isn't sufficient to reset the switch (if it exists)
> back to the original setting.  Maybe you would need to run a kernel
> that doesn't have any xHCI support at all.  Can you build such a kernel
> and test it?
>
> Alan Stern
>
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