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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] USB hard drive puzzle
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:53:00
Message-Id: jqvutb$jf3$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] USB hard drive puzzle by Paul Hartman
1 On 06/08/2012 08:13 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
2 > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> On 08/06/12 14:52, walt wrote:
4 >>>>
5 >>>> Does unloading and reloading the xhci module help?
6 >>>
7 >>>
8 >>> Brilliant :) It does indeed, thanks.
9 >>
10 >>
11 >> Might be worth reporting as a bug perhaps. Or ask around on LKML.
12 >
13 > Maybe post about it to the usb-storage mailing list, the people who
14 > write those drivers might be hanging out there. It is a low-volume
15 > list so maybe a higher chance of being seen than LKML.
16 >
17 > https://groups.google.com/a/lists.one-eyed-alien.net/group/usb-storage
18
19 Well, Greg K-H said it sounded to him like a pci hotplug issue and
20 sure enough, adding pci_hotplug got it working.
21
22 That leaves me wondering how a mere mortal tells the difference
23 between a broken driver and a missing driver. Ask a kernel dev,
24 obviously :)