Re: New USB stack on FreeBSD w/Linux emulation layer coming

Hans Petter Selasky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 21 May 2007 13:37, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2007 20:43 schrieb Hans Petter Selasky:
> > The lock that you are holding during submission is the same lock that is
> > protecting the callback. Actually you can end up calling the
> > __usbd_callback() prematurely in my new USB stack, but that is handled
> > just fine, through some recurse bits:
>
> That code needs to be shot, staked through the heart, burned and buried
> in holy ground. If an operation fails, you return an error. What do you
> think happens if the callback tries to repair the error and fails to do so?
> 

You have to back out and start some watchdog timer.

Typically when you get an error you start the clear-stall transfer. If that 
fails you back out and rely on a watchdog timer to start the transfer again 
later.

Of course this won't go into an infinite loop :-)

--HPS

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