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On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 06:57:13 +0200
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> wrote:

> I fail to see how the commit could cause an issue like this. Is this
> really reproducibly broken with the commit and irreproducible without
> it? As it looks like a USB/wiring problem:
> usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 2
> ath: phy0: Reading Magic # failed
> ath: phy0: Unable to initialize hardware; initialization status: -5
> ...
> usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
> usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
> 
> Ccing ath9k maintainers too.

Note that this has been previously reported in:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208251
and confirmed by several people on various stable series and the mainline that
the referenced commit is indeed causing the problem.

I don't get the "device descriptor read" errors though, my dmesg is posted on
the bug report, it just says "ath9k_htc: Failed to initialize the device".

> > I don't have so much info about the HW, besides a dmesg showing the
> > phy breaking.
> > I also added the reporter to CC too.
> > 
> > https://gist.github.com/AngryPenguinPL/1e545f0da3c2339e443b9e5044fcccea
> > 
> > If you need more info, please let me know and I'll try my best to get
> > it as fast as possible for you.

-- 
With respect,
Roman