From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] NET: usb: Adding URB_ZERO_PACKET flag to usbnet.c Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:50:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100406.195037.247530407.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1270599787.8900.8.camel@Linuxdev4-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net, rfiler@sierrawireless.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org To: epasheva@sierrawireless.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:47023 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750921Ab0DGCug (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2010 22:50:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1270599787.8900.8.camel@Linuxdev4-laptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Elina Pasheva Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 17:23:07 -0700 > Subject: [PATCH 1/1] NET: usb: Adding URB_ZERO_PACKET flag to usbnet.c > From: Elina Pasheva > This patch adds setting of the urb transfer flag URB_ZERO_PACKET before > submitting an urb for drivers that have requested it (by advertising flag > FLAG_SEND_ZLP). > The modification is in usbnet.c function usbnet_start_xmit(). > This patch only adds the zero length flag. > A subsequent patch will address the buggy code we found when devices do not > advertise FLAG_SEND_ZLP in which case there is a possibility of transferring > packets with non-deterministic length. > > This patch has been tested on kernel-2.6.34-rc3. > This patch has been checked against net-2.6 tree. > Signed-off-by: Elina Pasheva > Signed-off-by: Rory Filer Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks.