Re: [PATCH resend] [media] uvcvideo: zero seq number when disabling stream

Guennadi Liakhovetski
2017-10-18T08:52:21Z

Hi Laurent,

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

> Hi Hans,
>
> (CC'ing Guennadi Liakhovetski)
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> On Friday, 15 September 2017 09:27:51 EEST Hans Yang wrote:
> > For bulk-based devices, when disabling the video stream,
> > in addition to issue CLEAR_FEATURE(HALT), it is better to set
> > alternate setting 0 as well or the sequnce number in host
> > side will probably not reset to zero.
>
> The USB 2.0 specificatin states in the description of the SET_INTERFACE
> request that "If a device only supports a default setting for the specified
> interface, then a STALL may be returned in the Status stage of the request".
>
> The Linux implementation of usb_set_interface() deals with this by handling
> STALL conditions and manually clearing HALT for all endpoints in the
> interface, but I'm still concerned that this change could break existing bulk-
> based cameras. Do you know what other operating systems do when disabling the
> stream on bulk cameras ? According to a comment in the driver Windows calls
> CLEAR_FEATURE(HALT), but the situation might have changed since that was
> tested.
>
> Guennadi, how do your bulk-based cameras handle this ?

I don't know what design decisions are implemented there, but I tested a
couple of cameras for sending a STREAMOFF after a few captured buffers,
sleeping for a couple of seconds, requeuing buffers, sending STREAMON and
capturing a few more - that seems to have worked. "Seems" because I only
used a modified version of capture-example, I haven't checked buffer
contents.

BTW, Hans, may I ask - what cameras did you use?

Thanks
Guennadi

> > Then in next time video stream start, the device will expect
> > host starts packet from 0 sequence number but host actually
> > continue the sequence number from last transaction and this
> > causes transaction errors.
>
> Do you mean the DATA0/DATA1 toggle ? Why does the host continue toggling the
> PID from the last transation ? The usb_clear_halt() function calls
> usb_reset_endpoint() which should reset the DATA PID toggle.
>
> > This commit fixes this by adding set alternate setting 0 back
> > as what isoch-based devices do.
> >
> > Below error message will also be eliminated for some devices:
> > uvcvideo: Non-zero status (-71) in video completion handler.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hans Yang <hansy@nvidia.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c | 5 ++---
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> > b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c index fb86d6af398d..ad80c2a6da6a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> > @@ -1862,10 +1862,9 @@ int uvc_video_enable(struct uvc_streaming *stream,
> > int enable)
> >
> > if (!enable) {
> > uvc_uninit_video(stream, 1);
> > - if (stream->intf->num_altsetting > 1) {
> > - usb_set_interface(stream->dev->udev,
> > + usb_set_interface(stream->dev->udev,
> > stream->intfnum, 0);
> > - } else {
> > + if (stream->intf->num_altsetting == 1) {
> > /* UVC doesn't specify how to inform a bulk-based device
> > * when the video stream is stopped. Windows sends a
> > * CLEAR_FEATURE(HALT) request to the video streaming
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Laurent Pinchart
>