Re: usb-serial ipaq kernel problem

[Frank Gevaerts <frank.gevaerts@fks.be>]

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 07:33:30PM -0300, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote:
> On Mon, 29 May 2006 22:47:24 +0200
> Frank Gevaerts <frank.gevaerts@fks.be> wrote:
> | 
> | The panic was caused by the read urb being submitten in ipaq_open,
> | regardless of success, and never killed in case of failure. What my
> | patch basically does is to submit the urb only after succesfully sending
> | the control message, and adding a sleep between tries. As long as this
> | patch is not applied, we hardly get any other error because the kernel
> | panics as soon as an ipaq reboots.
> 
>  I see.
> 
>  Did you try to just kill the read urb in the ipaq_open's error path?

Yes, that's what I did at first. It works, but with the long waits (we see
waits up to 80-90 seconds right now) I was afraid that the urb might timeout
before the control message succeeds.

Frank

> 
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> Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino

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