On 06/08/2012 08:13 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 08/06/12 14:52, walt wrote: >>>> >>>> Does unloading and reloading the xhci module help? >>> >>> >>> Brilliant :) It does indeed, thanks. >> >> >> Might be worth reporting as a bug perhaps. Or ask around on LKML. > > Maybe post about it to the usb-storage mailing list, the people who > write those drivers might be hanging out there. It is a low-volume > list so maybe a higher chance of being seen than LKML. > > https://groups.google.com/a/lists.one-eyed-alien.net/group/usb-storage
Well, Greg K-H said it sounded to him like a pci hotplug issue and sure enough, adding pci_hotplug got it working. That leaves me wondering how a mere mortal tells the difference between a broken driver and a missing driver. Ask a kernel dev, obviously :)