How to search Linux Kernel changelogs? (USB disconnect problem)

[Omer Zak]

At your hint, I have installed powertop.
I did not find a tip in Debian, but there is a tiptop command in my
system.
How can they help me diagnose USB problems?


On Mon, 2015-12-21 at 13:35 +0200, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote:
> do you install/use powertop or tlp ?
> 

> On 21 December 2015 at 12:53, Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il> wrote:
>         During the last several months, I was having a problem of USB
>         mouse
>         disconnecting and reconnecting very often in my Linux system
>         (Debian
>         Wheezy, kernels 3.16.0-4-amd64 and 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64).
>         Recently a
>         similar problem started to affect also my printer.
>         
>         Hardware problems were ruled out yesterday in the computer
>         repair lab.
>         
>         I found some information which suggested that it has to do
>         with USB
>         power control, and that there are several problems with USB
>         handling in
>         general.
>         
>         I also saw that other people complain about similar problems,
>         often
>         without a solution to their problems.
>         
>         So I wanted to search the Linux Kernel changelogs for any
>         recent changes
>         in the USB subsystem.
>         
>         Unfortunately I found no such search function.
>         https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ has all changelogs in
>         its
>         subdirectories but no search function.
>         The search function in http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges
>         is broken -
>         I get Web searches even when I choose "This site".
>         
>         What do you do when you need to search Linux kernel changesets
>         for
>         relevant changes?


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