Re: 5.14.14+ USB regression caused by "usb: core: hcd: Add support for deferring roothub registration" series

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 10:07:18AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 10:02:52AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > We (Fedora) have been receiving multiple reports about USB devices stopping
> > working starting with 5.14.14 .
> > 
> > An Arch Linux user has found that reverting the first 2 patches from this series:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210909064200.16216-1-kishon@ti.com/
> > 
> > Fixes things (the 3th patch is just some mostly unrelated refactoring/cleanup).
> > 
> > See here for the Arch-linux discussion surrounding this:
> > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2000956#p2000956
> > 
> > And here are 2 Fedora bug reports of Fedora users being unable to use their
> > machines due their mouse + kbd not working:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2019542
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2019576
> > 
> > Can we get this patch-series reverted from the 5.14.y releases please ?
> 
> Sure, but can you also submit patches to get into 5.15.y and 5.16-rc1
> that revert these changes as they should still be an issue there, right?

I've reverted these in my tree now so that the revert will get into
5.16-rc1.

thanks,

greg k-h