Re: Linux 3.7.5

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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