Re: Oops when syncing Sony Clie 760 with USB cradle

[Stephan Gutschke <stephan@gutschke.com>]

sure i try a patch no problem. Especially because my Clie just did a 
hard-reset :-( -- no clue why --  But I am glad when the syncing works
again so i can get my data back on ;-)

See you later
Stephan

Greg KH wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 12:23:27AM +0100, Stephan Gutschke wrote:
> 
>>there you go,  the output from  /proc/bus/usb/devices
>>By the way I have an Clie N710C which is upgraded
>>to an 760 with OS 4.1S, shouldnt make a difference,
>>but I just wanted to let you know.
>>
> 
> Ah, that might make the difference.  It looks like the number of
> endpoints is different on this device, than any other 4.x Clie devices
> (they should have 4 bulk endpoints.)  The older devices have 2 endpoints
> (endpoints are usually done in hardware)
> 
> This Clie is reporting to the driver that it _does_ have 2 "ports" (a
> port is 2 endpoint pairs in this scheme), but in reality, it doesn't.
> The lying device is then causing the driver to oops when it tries to
> write to a port that isn't even there.
> 
> I'm going to have to rework the driver to fix this problem, give me a
> day or so to come up with a solution.  Are you willing to try a patch
> when I have something?
> 
> Thanks for the good error reporting, it really helped.
> 
> greg k-h
> 



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Stephan Gutschke