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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: ark3116_driver@auctionant.de,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] ark3116: receive returns negative
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 05:45:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070517124525.GC20055@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0705161743250.9570@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:04:45PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I seem to have problems with the ark3116 driver from 2.6.18.8. This is a 
> USB-RS232 cable. Just opening the /dev/ttyUSB0 device 
> gives (this is the 
> debug output enabled by `modprobe ark3116 debug=1`).
> 
> The lines that look suspicious are
> /serial/ark3116.c: 124 < 1 bytes [0xFFFFFFB0]
> and
> /serial/ark3116.c: ark3116_ioctl cmd 0x5401 not supported

Why is this suspicious?  We don't support all ioctls for all usb-serial
drivers, perhaps this one is just not really needed?

> I have also seen things like "id here < -62 [0x10]", which would 
> indicate that usb_control_msg() returned something very negative 
> (-ETIME!?).

But does the driver seem to work properly?

> Issuing a write() on an open fd to ttyUSB does not generate any further 
> debug output. Is the driver even complete/functional?

Do you get data through the device properly?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-17 12:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-16 16:04 ark3116: receive returns negative Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-17 12:45 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-05-17 14:10   ` [linux-usb-devel] " Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-17 14:51     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-17 14:58       ` Greg KH
2007-05-17 15:16         ` [PATCH] Re: [linux-usb-devel] " Jan Engelhardt

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