gspca: video0 becomes video1 after "ISOC data error"

["Németh Márton" <nm127@freemail.hu>]

Hi,

I'm running Debian with Linux 2.6.38-2-486 on a computer. I have a hama AC-150 webcam
attached to this computer. The webcam works continouosly and I use mencoder to do some
cropping and transformation and to encode the video stream to a file.

When I plug the device the following appears in the dmesg:

[439884.692090] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
[439884.841721] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0c45, idProduct=6142
[439884.841958] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
[439884.842153] usb 3-1: Product: USB camera
[439884.851327] gspca: probing 0c45:6142
[439884.856694] sonixj: Sonix chip id: 12
[439884.942767] sonixj: Sensor po2030n
[439884.947226] input: sonixj as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb3/3-1/input/input4
[439884.968553] gspca: video0 created

The camera works and sometimes the following messages appear in dmesg:

[2992914.118137] gspca: ISOC data error: [3] len=0, status=-84
[3020511.187726] gspca: ISOC data error: [16] len=0, status=-84
[3071235.051448] gspca: ISOC data error: [22] len=0, status=-84
[3178268.392602] gspca: ISOC data error: [11] len=0, status=-84
[3195506.149353] gspca: ISOC data error: [14] len=0, status=-84
[3200576.757068] gspca: ISOC data error: [13] len=0, status=-84
[3242983.446235] gspca: ISOC data error: [20] len=0, status=-84
[3242983.446406] gspca: ISOC data error: [21] len=0, status=-84
[3242983.446526] gspca: ISOC data error: [22] len=0, status=-84
[3242983.446638] gspca: ISOC data error: [23] len=0, status=-84
[3242983.468410] gspca: ISOC data error: [0] len=0, status=-84
[3242983.468578] gspca: ISOC data error: [1] len=0, status=-84
[3242983.468709] gspca: ISOC data error: [2] len=0, status=-84
[3242983.468827] gspca: ISOC data error: [3] len=0, status=-84
...
[3242983.579375] gspca: ISOC data error: [22] len=0, status=-84
[3242983.579375] gspca: ISOC data error: [23] len=0, status=-84
[3242983.588379] gspca: URB error -84, resubmitting
[3242983.591697] usb 3-1: USB disconnect, address 6
[3242983.592489] gspca: ISOC data error: [0] len=0, status=-84
[3242983.592630] gspca: ISOC data error: [1] len=0, status=-84
[3242983.592744] gspca: ISOC data error: [2] len=0, status=-84
[3242983.592856] gspca: ISOC data error: [3] len=0, status=-84
...
[3242983.594935] gspca: ISOC data error: [22] len=0, status=-84
[3242983.595044] gspca: ISOC data error: [23] len=0, status=-84
[3242983.595149] gspca: usb_submit_urb() ret -19
[3242983.602605] gspca: video0 disconnect
[3242983.899568] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
[3242984.077146] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0c45, idProduct=6142
[3242984.077375] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
[3242984.077563] usb 3-1: Product: USB camera
[3242984.096020] gspca: probing 0c45:6142
[3242984.117655] sonixj: Sonix chip id: 12
[3242984.221778] sonixj: Sensor po2030n
[3242984.249883] input: sonixj as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb3/3-1/input/input5
[3242984.258533] gspca: video1 created

At this point the user space application (mencoder) still have the /dev/video0 device open
but the video0 device is no longer there. Instead the video1 is created.

I already saw similar behaviour in case of suspend-resume cycle, see
Bug 13419 - gspca: /dev/video0 changes to /dev/video1 after suspend
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13419

The error code -84 refers to EILSEQ (Illegal byte sequence) according to include/asm-generic/errno.h .
What could be the reason for "ISO data error"?

I guess the video0 is disconnected as part of error recovery. In this case, however
the video1 device is created so the user space application looses the original
video streaming device. Is this how it shall work?

Regards,

	Márton Németh