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Bug#808953: linux: xhci regression in backported patch



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On Fri, 2015-12-25 at 04:26 +1030, Ron wrote:
> Source: linux
> Version: 3.16.7-ckt20-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> While testing the code from here: http://www.bitbabbler.org I ran into a
> problem on recently updated Jessie systems where devices plugged into an
> XHCI port would always time out between transfers when the transfer size
> was larger than 16kB.  And since it wasn't doing that a few weeks ago, I
> went digging :)
> 
> All the following was tested on amd64.
> 
> I can confirm that 3.16.7-ckt17-1 does not have this problem and it's a
> newly introduced regression that's first seen with the ckt20 patch set.
> I can also confirm that 4.2.0-0.bpo.1 from jessie-backports does not
> have this problem.
> 
> The cause appears to be a botched backport of
> e210c422b6fdd2dc123bedc588f399aefd8bf9de (from Linus' repo) because I can
> also confirm that a locally built kernel from the 3.16.7-ckt20-1 source
> with only that patch reverted also does not have this problem.

Are you seeing any error messages in the kernel log?  Do they look
anything like those in <https://bugs.debian.org/809430>?  If not,
please send them.

> If it's really important that we have that patch for some reason, then
> it looks like (at least) 40a3b775f49c2784c96b19170fd2478e5e5511a1 would
> also need to be backported too, and maybe some other changes that effect
> this as well.
[...]

Have you tried applying that on top of the current stable kernel
source?  It doesn't look like a dependency to me.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken.

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