linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] usb: Check if port status is equal to RxDetect

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1407171059560.1517-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:06:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@...onical.com>
cc:	sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com, <mathias.nyman@...el.com>,
	<linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<yk@...onical.com>, <anthony.wong@...onical.com>,
	<gerald.yang@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] usb: Check if port status is equal to RxDetect

On Thu, 17 Jul 2014, Gavin Guo wrote:

> When using USB 3.0 pen drive with the [AMD] FCH USB XHCI Controller
> [1022:7814], the second hotplugging will experience the USB 3.0 pen
> drive is recognized as high-speed device. After bisecting the kernel,
> I found the commit number 41e7e056cdc662f704fa9262e5c6e213b4ab45dd
> (USB: Allow USB 3.0 ports to be disabled.) causes the bug. After doing
> some experiments, the bug can be fixed by avoiding executing the function
> hub_usb3_port_disable(). Because the port status with [AMD] FCH USB
> XHCI Controlleris [1022:7814] is already in RxDetect
> (I tried printing out the port status before setting to Disabled state),
> it's reasonable to check the port status before really executing
> hub_usb3_port_disable().
> 
> Fixes: 41e7e056cdc6 (USB: Allow USB 3.0 ports to be disabled.)
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@...onical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>

I did not give you permission to add my Signed-off-by: line to this 
patch.  It wouldn't make any sense anyway, because I haven't merged the 
patch.

However, you can add

Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>

Alan Stern

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