Re: usb_control_msg() reads 0 bytes in Linux 2.6.23-rc1

Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Pete Zaitcev wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:55:26 -0400, Pavel Roskin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > The driver stopped working after I upgraded from Linux 2.6.22 to Linux
> > 2.6.23-rc1.  No compile errors or warnings needed to be fixed.
> 
> > I was able to check that the data buffer remains unchanged even though
> > the data size is not 0.  Actually, the return code is 0, which indicates
> > that 0 bytes have been read.  But why?  And why is it not an error?
> 
> I looked at the changes in -rc1 and the only two vaguely suspicious areas
> are the suspend and the ehci_hcd. So, I'm afraid someone has to bisect.
> 
> The URB_SHORT_NOT_OK flag is not default. I don't remember exactly why.
> 
> > I'll appreciate if some of the USB developers have a brief look at the
> > driver.  Sure, I can debug deeper into usb_control_msg(), but most
> > likely the driver is just doing something stupid.
> > 
> > The patch for the kernel:
> > http://80211libre.org/at76/at76_usb.patch
> 
> I don't see anything suspicious in the patch.

2.6.23-rc1 has no apparent problem with control messages in ehci-hcd on 
my machine.  Is it possible that the device really has sent back 0 
bytes?

usbmon might help here.

Alan Stern


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