Re: usb regression in 2.6.24-rc4

[Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings guys & gals;

Hi ,

> 
> This was sent about an hour ago to the usb-devel list also.
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> Just a few minutes ago I needed to make use of my scanner, an Epson 1250u.
> 
> Firing up xsane, the usual select the device menu window didn't show, and it 
> went straight to my tv card as the only input device.
> 
> I couldn't recall the name of the tool that scans for scanners that's in the 
> sane package, or should be, so I then did an lsusb, but got an empty result!
> 
> Unplugging the usb cable from the scanner, then reconnecting the usb cable got 
> me the usual disconnect and connect messages in the log, but xsane still 
> couldn't find it.
> 
> So I rebooted to 2.6.24-rc4 again, same result.  lsusb still gave an empty 
> result.  The two kernels were generated from the same .config as far as I 
> know.  The -rc3 .config was fed to a "make oldconfig" to make 
> the -rc4 .config as is the usual practice.
> 
> So I then rebooted to 2.6.24-rc3, and it all works again.  I got the scanning 
> done and the pix sent on their merry way.
> 
> Anybody have a suggestion of what to check, or maybe a patch to revert?  Or 
> a .config option that needs to be enabled?
>

Sounds for me like this one : 

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/6/409

Gabriel