On Tue, 30 May 2006 17:06:27 +0200
Frank Gevaerts <[email protected]> wrote:
| On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:38:01AM -0300, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino 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
| > | > 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.
| >
| > My only (obvious) question is that if it's really safe to send the read
| > urb after the control message..
|
| Since it is bulk, it is not guaranteed to start before the control
| message anyway, so it should be safe.
|
| The patch looks correct to me, but I would still like to increase
| KP_RETRIES a bit. If I read the code correctly, the current setup allows
| for 10 seconds between usb connect and acknowledging the control
| message. This is enough if the device is only connected when booted
| (which is the normal use case). However, in our case, we do
| software-initiated reboots of the ipaq while it is attached to the usb
| bus, which can take much longer, so for us KP_RETRIES should be at least
| 1000, maybe 2000. Of course, we can always run a patched kernel for this.
Hmmm, what do you think about keeping the current default value and
adding a module parameter to change it?
| I'll test the patch later today.
|
| Anyway, we have not seen the usb_serial_disconnect bug since applying
| your patch, so that bug is also probably gone (we have had nearly 1000
| successfull connects/disconnects since then)
Nice to know.
--
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
