Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:39:07 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Linux 3.7.5 |
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:42:16PM +0100, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:56:58 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > I'm announcing the release of the 3.7.5 kernel. > > Apologies for being late but I'm afraid I just found at least one > regression in this release. > > I have an external HDD in an USB3 enclosure for the occasional backup. I > turn it on, it gets registered as sdX, I mount it/use it/unmount it and > turn it off, which worked fine with kernels including 3.7.4. > With 3.7.5 the kernel seems no longer notified of the changed device power > status; nothing in dmesg and the device stays in the list of SCSI devices > as e.g. shown by lsscsi. This is repeatable. Turning the device back > on/using it works fine, it's just that I cannot dynamically remove it any > longer. > > I cannot run a bisect at the moment, but reading the changelog points > to a few USB and libata related changes. I hope this helps.
If you could run 'git bisect' to determine which patch causes this problem, that would be wonderful.
Also, does 3.8-rc5 work for you properly or not on this hardware?
thanks,
greg k-h
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