Re: [GIT PULL] USB driver patches for 4.6-rc1

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Mar 18 2016 - 18:58:47 EST


On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 03:51:34PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, the bisect is now solidly in the usb part.
>
> The commit that ends up being marked bad is odd, but there it is:
> 69bec7259853 "USB: core: let USB device know device node".
>
> Very odd, but I tested multiple times: I'm typing this on
> d883f52e1f6d, and everything is fine. On 69bec7259853, I can't type.
>
> Note that when I say "I can't type", it's the early boot disk
> encryption password. And maybe there's an oops there, but I can't see
> it, and I can't log it.
>
> I don't even have CONFIG_OF enabled, so I don't see what difference
> that patch would make. But it makes some difference.
>
> I'll double-check by reverting it on top of current git (it does seem
> to at least revert cleanly), I haven't done that yet. But adding the
> people involved in that commit to the discussion to see if anybody
> sees anything.

Yes, people did report issues with that yesterday, and I queued up a
patch for it, it's attached below, but I didn't think it would cause any
issues with non-OF systems either. I wanted to give it a few days
testing in linux-next before sending it to you, but can do so now if you
want.

thanks,

greg k-h