Re: pwc-webcam attached to usb-ohci card blocks on read() indefinitely.

Dr. Michael Weller
2002-03-05T16:28:50Z

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On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 5. März 2002 06:11 schrieb Greg KH:
> > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 02:06:07AM +0100, Carl-Johan Kjellander wrote:
> > > Attached to each one of these is an Philips ToUCam pro which uses the pwc
> > > and pwcx modules. (yes, the kernel becomes tainted by the pwcx module)
> >
> > As you are using this closed source module, I suggest you take this up
> > with that module's author.
>
> Perhaps you could first ask whether the hang can be reproduced
> without that module loaded ?
> Secondly, that module is unlikely to cause that kind of trouble.

I might completely misunderstand the thread, but I would suspect the
pwc and pwcx modules to be the drivers for the pwc-webcam which blocks
forever on read syscalls.

How would you perform the read on the pwc-webcam w/o that driver module?

Michael.

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