Re: [PATCH 1/2] cx82310_eth: re-enable ethernet mode after router reboot

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Sun Oct 11 2020 - 18:55:43 EST


On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 16:00:46 +0200 Ondrej Zary wrote:
> When the router is rebooted without a power cycle, the USB device
> remains connected but its configuration is reset. This results in
> a non-working ethernet connection with messages like this in syslog:
> usb 2-2: RX packet too long: 65535 B
>
> Re-enable ethernet mode when receiving a packet with invalid size of
> 0xffff.

Patch looks good, but could you explain what's a reboot without a power
cycle in this case? The modem gets reset but USB subsystem doesn't know
it and doesn't go though a unbind() + bind() cycle?