Hot-Plug USB 3.0 Support in Asuswrt-Merlin 384.19

[garycnew]

Asus RT-AC66U
Asuswrt-Merlin 384.19

1. USB 3.0 xHCI Hub
2. AMS Venus T5C Mini 2.5" SATA 5-Bay RAID 5 USB 3.0 Array (Time Capsule)
3. USB 3.0 SD Card Reader (Love these Little Guys)

All:

It appears the Asuswrt Firmware has made some advancements in the interoperability with USB 3.0 devices even since a few years ago. I am successfully able to get the above USB 3.0 xHCI Hub, Array (Time Capsule), and USB 3.0 SD Card Reader to all mount and work at full speed within the Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware.

The only issue is that any time I make a change to the USB 3.0 physical configuration, I am forced to reboot the Asuswrt-Merlin Router for them to be recognized and installed. Should I attempt to Hot-Plug a USB 3.0 device into the USB 3.0 Hub it has issues, thinks the USB 3.0 Hub is dying, and halts the USB Hub dropping the already installed devices.

# dmesg xhci_hcd 0000:00:0c.0: Timeout while waiting for a slot xhci_hcd 0000:00:0c.0: Timeout while waiting for a slot usb 1-1.2: device not accepting address 0, error -62 xhci_hcd 0000:00:0c.0: Timeout while waiting for a slot hub 1-1:1.0: couldn't allocate port 2 usb_device xhci_hcd 0000:00:0c.0: xHCI host not responding to stop endpoint command. xhci_hcd 0000:00:0c.0: Assuming host is dying, halting host. xhci_hcd 0000:00:0c.0: HC died; cleaning up hub 1-1:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -108) usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2 usb 1-1.1: USB disconnect, address 3

However, if I reboot the Asuswrt-Merlin Router, everything comes back up, including the newly plugged USB 3.0 device(s) and everything works without issue, again.

# lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0616 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05e3:0610 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 05e3:0749 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 152d:0551 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05e3:0749

# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 1 29.7G 0 disk └─sda1 8:1 1 29.7G 0 part /tmp/mnt/SanDiskSDHC sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 0 200M 0 part /tmp/mnt/EFI └─sdb2 8:18 0 1.8T 0 part /tmp/mnt/Time_Capsule sdc 8:32 1 29.7G 0 disk └─sdc1 8:33 1 29.7G 0 part /tmp/mnt/sdc1 mtdblock0 31:0 0 512K 0 disk mtdblock1 31:1 0 1.5M 0 disk mtdblock2 31:2 0 62M 0 disk mtdblock3 31:3 0 60.4M 1 disk / mtdblock4 31:4 0 62.8M 0 disk /jffs mtdblock5 31:5 0 1.3M 0 disk

# nvram show | grep -i _speed usb_path1.2_speed=5000 usb_path1.1_speed=5000 usb_path2_speed=480

# mount rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) /dev/root on / type squashfs (ro,relatime) devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=127732k,nr_inodes=31933,mode=755) proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime) tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,relatime) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600) /dev/mtdblock4 on /jffs type jffs2 (rw,noatime) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,relatime) /dev/sda1 on /tmp/mnt/SanDiskSDHC type ext4 (rw,nodev,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered) /dev/sdb2 on /tmp/mnt/Time_Capsule type thfsplus (rw,nodev,relatime,umask=0000,uid=0,gid=0,nls=utf8,nobarrier,readahead=1M) /dev/sdc1 on /tmp/mnt/sdc1 type tfat (rw,nodev,relatime,uid=0,gid=0,umask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=winnt,min_prealloc_size=64k,max_prealloc_size=64M,readahead=1M,nocache,fail_safe,falloc_skip_zeroing,hidden=show,errors=continue) /dev/sdb1 on /tmp/mnt/EFI type tfat (rw,nodev,relatime,uid=0,gid=0,umask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=winnt,min_prealloc_size=64k,max_prealloc_size=64M,readahead=1M,nocache,fail_safe,falloc_skip_zeroing,hidden=show,errors=continue)

# df -h Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root 29.1M 29.1M 0 100% / devtmpfs 124.7M 0 124.7M 0% /dev tmpfs 124.8M 1.9M 123.0M 2% /tmp /dev/mtdblock4 62.8M 4.4M 58.4M 7% /jffs /dev/sda1 29.3G 2.2G 25.6G 8% /tmp/mnt/SanDiskSDHC /dev/sdb2 1.8T 212.5G 1.6T 11% /tmp/mnt/Time_Capsule /dev/sdc1 29.7G 384.0K 29.7G 0% /tmp/mnt/sdc1 /dev/sdb1 196.9M 4.0K 196.9M 0% /tmp/mnt/EFI

My question is if there are any known issue with Hot-Plug USB 3.0 Support? I'm grateful that Asuswrt includes support for these USB 3.0 devices. I'm just wondering if there is a solution for Hot-Plugging devices into the USB 3.0 Hub without having to reboot?

EDIT: I'm sure there's a more elegant solution, but I've found that by removing/re-installing the xhci_hcd driver--I'm able to get the system to recognize the new device without having to preform a full reboot. FYI... "The ohci_hcd & uhci_hcd drivers are for USB1.1 ports, the ehci_hcd driver is for USB2 ports, and the xhci_hcd driver is for USB3 ports."

# rmmod xhci_hcd # modprobe xhci_hcd

Hope that helps.

Respectfully,


Gary

P.S. I've attached the output from dmesg for reference.

 

[AndreiV]

Yesterday your router was a Linksys (aka ASUS RT-AC66U ) , are you still attempting to use Merlin's work on a non ASUS router?

 

[garycnew]

Hi AndreiV,

I own multiple routers. Thank you for asking.

Regards,


Gary

Как сказал старик ICE-T: «Не ненавидь игрока, ненавидь игру».

 

[AndreiV]

I own multiple routers. Thank you for asking.

No problem, strange you have the same issue with so many routers .

 

[garycnew]

Edited my original post with an inelegant remedy.