linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.7.5

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Message-ID: <20130128143907.GA2940@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:39:07 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Holger Hoffstaette <holger.hoffstaette@...glemail.com>
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 3.7.5

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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