On Tuesday 31 August 2004 12:50 pm, Alan Stern wrote:

> > Anyway, could anyone comment on the problem I discovered ?
> > Could it be a UHCI/root hub problem ? Or is it certain that the
> > device is faulty ? If the device is faulty, what should be done ? 
> > Could the buffer size be lowered from  
> > 9 to 8, or is it against the kernel policies to make such a change for a 
> > broken device ?
> 
> It's certainly not the kernel's fault.  And the buffer size cannot be
> lowered back to 8, as raising it to 9 was necessary to work with other
> (slightly broken) devices.
> 
> Another possibility is to increase the buffer to 64 bytes.

Or to lower it to 4 bytes ... I was going to send in a patch that did that,
but the 9 byte patch went in first.  The config descriptor's full size is
bytes index 2 and 3 in the buffer.

A 4 byte request forces a short read in the same way 9 bytes does,
but 8 bytes does not.  And a 9 byte request is prone to two different
families of boundary case bugs:  8 byte boundary for packet size,
and 10 byte boundary for the next descriptor in the group.

- Dave


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