Re: suspending hid devices

Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> 
> > > thanks, I think that basically killing output URBs is a good thing to do,
> > I've looked further and the control URB will have to die, too.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > > however the resuming will need some more thinking. What are all the 
> > > scenarios you can see that waiters on hid->wait will be woken too early?
> > 1) Resubmitting the IO upon resume() fails, error must be reported
> > 2) The output transfer finishes before tasks are unfrozen
> 
> I think that creating a notifier chain which will be called in 
> thaw_processes() after all the processes are unfrozen, will solve this 
> problem, right?

Do you really need to do all this?  Shouldn't it be true, when you first
do the suspend, that all the I/O queues are empty?  And since all tasks
are frozen and class drivers are suspended, no more I/O entries can be
created?

Alan Stern


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