[PATCH v2] usb: core: Add quirk for Gigabyte Aorus Waterforce X II AIO coolers

From: Lyude Paul

Date: Mon Aug 24 2026 - 15:56:43 EST


The "Aorus Waterforce" is one of those fancy gaming water coolers that
comes with fun LEDs and an entire dedicated LCD screen. A minor issue I've
noticed with this cooler on Linux, is that we fail to actually
reset the device when coming out of standby, ish:

[ 281.652184] usb 7-10.4: reset high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd
[ 287.179843] usb 7-10.4: PM: dpm_run_callback(): usb_dev_resume returns -5
[ 287.179854] usb 7-10.4: PM: failed to resume async: error -5

Generally this isn't fatal, as even when the water cooler doesn't resume it
will still reconnect itself moments later:

15:48:12 GoldenWind kernel: usb 7-10.4: USB disconnect, device number 14
15:48:12 GoldenWind kernel: usb 7-10.4: new high-speed USB device number
15 using xhci_hcd
15:48:14 GoldenWind kernel: usb 7-10.4: New USB device found,
idVendor=0414, idProduct=7a5e, bcdDevice= 2.00
15:48:14 GoldenWind kernel: usb 7-10.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1,
Product=2, SerialNumber=0
15:48:14 GoldenWind kernel: usb 7-10.4: Product: Castor3
15:48:14 GoldenWind kernel: usb 7-10.4: Manufacturer: ITE Tech.
15:48:14 GoldenWind kernel: hid-generic 0003:0414:7A5E.000D:
hiddev98,hidraw2: USB HID v1.01 Device [ITE Tech. Castor3] on
usb-0000:74:00.0-10.4/input0

My guess here is that the device simply doesn't support resets properly -
since that seems to be the only quirk I've found that actually works. Note
that the device still ends up disconnecting and reconnecting after resume,
but this seems to be normal behavior.

So, let's fix this by adding the USB_QUIRK_RESET quirk for this USB device.
This seems to work perfectly fine and prevents us from getting the
aforementioned errors on resume.

Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
Totally forgot about this patch until now :).

Previous version:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260203221452.198682-2-lyude@xxxxxxxxxx/

V2:
* Don't forget to sort quirk by vendor ID

drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/quirks.c b/drivers/usb/core/quirks.c
index b5b577f0b931c..6c4a52a693c05 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/quirks.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/quirks.c
@@ -217,6 +217,9 @@ static const struct usb_device_id usb_quirk_list[] = {
{ USB_DEVICE(0x03f0, 0xa31d), .driver_info =
USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND },

+ /* Gigabyte ITE Tech. Castor3 (Aorus Waterforce X II AIO coolers) */
+ { USB_DEVICE(0x0414, 0x7a5e), .driver_info = USB_QUIRK_RESET },
+
/* Creative SB Audigy 2 NX */
{ USB_DEVICE(0x041e, 0x3020), .driver_info = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME },


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2.55.0