netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] cx82310_eth: re-enable ethernet mode after router reboot

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Date:   Sun, 11 Oct 2020 15:55:39 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Ondrej Zary <linux@...y.sk>
Cc:     Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] cx82310_eth: re-enable ethernet mode after router
 reboot

On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 16:00:46 +0200 Ondrej Zary wrote:
> When the router is rebooted without a power cycle, the USB device
> remains connected but its configuration is reset. This results in
> a non-working ethernet connection with messages like this in syslog:
> 	usb 2-2: RX packet too long: 65535 B
> 
> Re-enable ethernet mode when receiving a packet with invalid size of
> 0xffff.

Patch looks good, but could you explain what's a reboot without a power
cycle in this case? The modem gets reset but USB subsystem doesn't know
it and doesn't go though a unbind() + bind() cycle?