On Thursday 05 April 2007 11:13:21 Eberhard Fahle wrote: > The driver uses usb_control_msg() for exchanging data with the device. > When the driver lived freeley _outside_ the kernel tree (pre 2.6.21) the > timeouts for these calls where set to 5*HZ for reading, 1HZ for writing. > (These timeouts seemed to work fine for all users of the driver, at least > nobody complained in the last 2 years. > > The current code (2.6.21-rc5) removed the 'HZ' from the timeouts and left > the driver with 5 jiffies for reading and 1 jiffy for writing. My new > machine is fast, but not that fast. > > I added a patch for this, but I'm unable to test it against 2.6.21-rc5. I > stumbled across this problem when doing a backport of the driver for Kernel > 2.6.20. (The patch works fine here) > ------------------------------------------------ > The patch also removes a useless debug statement, which was left over from > testing a broken firmware version
Just wondering.... Is there a reason why this problem hasn't been fixed in either 2.6.21-rc6 or 2.6.21-rc7? Eberhard Fahle ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
