Am Montag, 27. November 2006 04:22 schrieb David Brownell:
> On Sunday 26 November 2006 6:46 pm, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, David Brownell wrote:
> >
> > > On Thursday 23 November 2006 6:19 am, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > gl620a uses a buffer within a struct. This can corrupt memory on
> > > > machines
> > > > that are not cache coherent.
> > >
> > > How could it possibly corrupt memory?
> >
> > It would be more accurate to say that it could corrupt the contents of the
> > buffer during an input operation. I don't think it matters as far as
> > output is concerned...
>
> The question still remains: how could this corruption happen?
On third look, why does this driver submit an URB for data
it never reads? There's something fishy. It even more or less ignores
the status.
Regards
Oliver
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