Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:33:13 -0700 | From | Pete Zaitcev <> | Subject | Re: Bug with USB proc_bulk in 2.4 kernel |
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:04:54 -0700, Benjamin Cherian <benjamin.cherian.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Another option would be to change USBDEVFS_BULK to USBDEVFS_SUBMITURB. > > Did you look at doing that?
> We did that as well. But when you try to reap an URB there is no timeout. So > if something goes wrong you're stuck waiting for the operation to finish or > for the user to physically unplug the device.
This can't be right. Surely alarm(2) should work?
> >Of course it's very tempting for me to off-load both > >the work and the responsibility on you. > > All right then. I'll send you a patch that backports the string caching > mechanism from 2.6 in a few days. Would you be able to test it with the > 210PU?
Yes, that would be fine.
Although I am starting to think about creating a custom locking scheme in devio.c after all. It seems like less work.
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