Re: drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c : timeouts too small in usb_control_msg calls

On Thursday 05 April 2007 11:13:21 Eberhard Fahle wrote:
> The driver uses usb_control_msg() for exchanging data with the device.
> When the driver lived freeley _outside_ the kernel tree (pre 2.6.21) the
> timeouts for these calls where set to 5*HZ for reading, 1HZ for writing.
> (These timeouts seemed to work fine for all users of the driver, at least
> nobody complained in the last 2 years.
>
> The current code (2.6.21-rc5) removed the 'HZ' from the timeouts and left
> the driver with 5 jiffies for reading and 1 jiffy for writing. My new
> machine is fast, but not that fast.
>
> I added a patch for this, but I'm unable to test it against 2.6.21-rc5. I
> stumbled across this problem when doing a backport of the driver for Kernel
> 2.6.20. (The patch works fine here)
> ------------------------------------------------
> The patch also removes a useless debug statement, which was left over from
> testing a broken firmware version

Just wondering....

Is there a reason why this problem hasn't been fixed in either 2.6.21-rc6 or 
2.6.21-rc7?

Eberhard Fahle


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