On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 12:40:23PM -0500, David Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am developing a device driver for a USB network adapter and am seeing 
> occasional data corruption when sending data to or recieving data from the 
> device.  In particular this occurs under heavy traffic.  
> 
> Under Redhat 7.1 I occasionally lose the first 16 bytes of a packet of data 
> that I send to the device.  This appears to be fixed somewhere between Redhat 
> 7.1 and kernel 2.4.17.  Is/was this a known issue and does anyone know when 
> this was fixed?

Red Hat 7.1 shipped with 2.4.2 I think.  That was almost a year ago, so
yes, lots of things have been fixed since then :)

> Under Redhat 7.1 and with the 2.4.17 kernel I occasionally see corrupted data 
> being received from the device.  The nature of the corruption is not 
> consistent.  Sometimes extra bytes are appended to the beginning of a packet, 
> sometimes I get a packet with a few bytes that don't seem to come from 
> anywhere in particular.  Does anyone have any ideas what might cause this 
> problem?

Do you have any specifics?  Can you compare the data received in your
urb with the data that went across the wire?

> I am using the usb-uhci driver.  Any ideas?

Does the same problem happen with the uhci or usb-ohci drivers?  Does it
happen with other host controller chips?

thanks,

greg k-h

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