Re: Low speed BULK endpoints on UHCI

Manuel Stahl wrote:
> I would also be very glad to see linux support that 'non standard' mode of 
> bulk transfers for low speed devices. Maybe this could just be a parameter of 
> the uhci module to switch it on or off.
> 
> Also I don't see how a device could starve the bus with bulk transfers, 
> because they should only be handled if there is enough bandwidth free.
> 
> The only limitation the driver would have to check is the maximum size of 8 
> bytes.

What about if I submitted a patch that had a module parameter to usbcore along the lines of 
"deliberately_contravene_specifications" ? and we exported it such that it could be used to enable 
such gross hacks as bulk transfers on low speed devices?

At the moment all I could see it doing is removing the endpoint remapping from bulk to interrupt and 
removing the check for bulk submission in uhci, but I guess there are possible future uses where you 
may want to prevent the stack from exactly following the specs to allow bug-for-bug compatibility 
with the other desktop OS's.

If such a patch might be acceptable then I'll see about knocking something up. If not then my next 
thought was to see if I could make the cdc-acm driver detect interrupt endpoints and use those in 
lieu of bulk. But then that only works for a single driver. As we saw before with the MIDI 
interface, there *are* other devices out there that do contravene the specs and do work on the other 
OS's.


Brad
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