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

Laurent Pinchart
2017-10-16T15:07:55Z

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 ?

> 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