On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:53:29AM -0300, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2006 11:38:01 -0300
> "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> | On Tue, 30 May 2006 10:21:41 +0200
> | Frank Gevaerts <[email protected]> wrote:
> |
> | | On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 07:33:30PM -0300, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote:
> | | > On Mon, 29 May 2006 22:47:24 +0200
> | | > Frank Gevaerts <[email protected]> wrote:
> | | > |
> | | > | The panic was caused by the read urb being submitten in ipaq_open,
> | | > | regardless of success, and never killed in case of failure. What my
> | | > | patch basically does is to submit the urb only after succesfully sending
> | | > | the control message, and adding a sleep between tries. As long as this
> | | > | patch is not applied, we hardly get any other error because the kernel
> | | > | panics as soon as an ipaq reboots.
> | | >
> | | > I see.
> | | >
> | | > Did you try to just kill the read urb in the ipaq_open's error path?
> | |
> | | Yes, that's what I did at first. It works, but with the long waits (we see
> | | waits up to 80-90 seconds right now) I was afraid that the urb might timeout
> | | before the control message succeeds.
> |
> | Hmmm, I see.
>
> Thinking about this again, are you sure the read urb depends on the
> control message? It's quite easy to test, just a add a long timeout after
> the read URB was sent (say, five minutes) and waits for the read urb
> callback to run.
>
> If it ran _before_ the timeout expires with no timeout error it does not
> depend. Then we can do the simpler solution: just kill the read urb in the
> ipaq_open's error path.
I'll try it sometime today.
Frank
>
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