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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
To: "Bjørn Mork" <bjorn@mork.no>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cdc-wdm: fix "out-of-sync" due to missing notifications
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 11:13:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1463476438.19237.3.camel@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mvntevwy.fsf@nemi.mork.no>

On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 18:59 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> writes:
> 
> > The driver enforces a strict one-to-one relationship between the
> > received RESPONSE_AVAILABLE notifications and messages read from
> > the device. At the same time, it will cancel the interrupt URB
> > when there is no client holding the character device open.
> 
> Never mind.  Forget it.
> 
> This patch breaks other devices again.  The immediate and unconditional
> reading make them barf. I guess it can be worked around by delaying the
> flushing until at least one notification is received, but I obviously
> have to test this theory thoroughly on all devices I have.

Hi,

I think the best approach would be to keep the interrupt URB always
active. I didn't do this to conserve bandwidth, but if it makes devices
work, it certainly would be the best option.

	Regards
		Oliver



  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-17  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-13 15:39 [PATCH] cdc-wdm: fix "out-of-sync" due to missing notifications Bjørn Mork
2016-05-13 16:59 ` Bjørn Mork
2016-05-17  9:13   ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2016-05-17 19:24     ` Bjørn Mork
2016-05-17 21:49       ` Oliver Neukum
2016-05-17 23:39         ` Bjørn Mork
2016-05-18  8:12           ` Oliver Neukum

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