[PATCH] Revert "usb: kbd: destroy device after console is stopped"

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 11:52 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 10:19:10AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>
> Thanks for the report.
>
> > Reverts commit eb5fd9e46c1, it causes ARMv7 devices to stop booting
> > Linux when a USB keyboard is attached. The kernels starts but there's
> > no output. Reverting it makes things work again.
>
> It's not good. When we revert, we introduce another (I consider more serious)
> bug.

Sure, looking at the fixes tags I figured as much, but it also causes
regressions itself. I figured sending a revert would at least start
the discussion off.

> > Signed-off-by: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne at suse.de>
> > Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> >
> > This has caused us issues on a number of ARMv7 deviices. I'm not sure
> > why specifically ARMv7 because it happens on a RPi3 running Fedora
> > armhfp, but doesn't happen on aarch64. Issue seen on RPis, Cubietruck,
> > and others.
>
> Can we conduct a bit of investigation here?
> Is it using ATAGs or command line? How Linux kernel gets its parameters?

I believe command line, I've been testing booting using UEFI. TBH I'm
unsure why I see the problem on ARMv7 and not using aarchc64 on the
same device.