Re: follow up: strange problem with external USB disks

On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 13:05:01 +0200
Hans Petter Selasky <hps_at_selasky.org> wrote:

> On 2019-07-26 11:56, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:25:33 +0200
> > Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> I'm having a very strange problem with external USB disks in
> >> HEAD.  I see the problem with a kernel from July 12th and also
> >> with one from today.
> >>  
> > [snip]  
> >> Since I'm running a custom kernel I'll try running GENERIC to
> >> see what happens and report back.
> >>  
> > 
> > OK, so with GENERIC the error doesn't occur.  Guess I'm missing
> > something in my custom kernel configuration.
> >   
> 
> Does it work with GENERIC nodebug ?
> 

Do you mean without "makeoptions DEBUG=-g" or without "options
USB_DEBUG"?  Or something else?

I didn't have hw.usb.debug or hw.usb.xhci.debug set > 0 when I
tested.

I suspect that adding evdev support was at least partly
responsible for preventing the keyboard from disappearing.  I
didn't have it in my old custom config, but it's in the new one
and I don't have a problem with the keyboard failing now.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn