From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>,
Michael Trimarchi <trimarchi@gandalf.sssup.it>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftdi_sio: Keep going when write errors are encountered.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:44:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091118034401.GA17349@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1fx8co7d3.fsf_-_@fess.ebiederm.org>
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 07:10:48PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> The use of urb->actual_length to update tx_outstanding_bytes
> implicitly assumes that the number of bytes actually written is the
> same as the number of bytes we tried to write. On error that
> assumption is violated so just use transfer_buffer_length the number
> of bytes we intended to write to the device.
>
> If an error occurs we need to fall through and call
> usb_serial_port_softint to wake up processes waiting in
> tty_wait_until_sent.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Nice job, thanks for debugging this. I'll go queue it up.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-18 3:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-24 15:40 [PATCH] USB: ftdi_sio: Remove tty->low_latency Johan Hovold
2009-09-24 19:03 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-09-24 19:21 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-24 21:15 ` Johan Hovold
2009-09-25 17:46 ` Michael Trimarchi
2009-09-29 14:55 ` Johan Hovold
2009-09-29 22:52 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-30 6:33 ` Michael Trimarchi
2009-09-30 9:05 ` Johan Hovold
2009-10-02 2:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-02 8:47 ` Johan Hovold
2009-10-02 16:33 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-02 22:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-03 10:21 ` Johan Hovold
2009-10-02 23:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-03 13:09 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-03 23:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-17 18:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-17 18:41 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-11-17 18:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-17 20:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-18 1:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-18 3:10 ` [PATCH] ftdi_sio: Keep going when write errors are encountered Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-18 3:44 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-10-03 11:42 ` [PATCH] USB: ftdi_sio: Remove tty->low_latency Johan Hovold
2009-10-03 12:11 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-10-03 12:28 ` Johan Hovold
2009-10-03 13:31 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-10-03 14:41 ` Johan Hovold
2009-10-03 13:18 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-03 13:27 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-10-03 14:05 ` Johan Hovold
2009-10-03 16:33 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-03 16:46 ` Johan Hovold
2009-10-04 19:48 ` Johan Hovold
2009-10-04 23:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-05 7:01 ` Johan Hovold
2009-10-02 16:59 ` Greg KH
2009-10-02 9:04 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-02 9:53 ` Alan Cox
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