Sorry to resubmit. Just wondering, if it didn't get your attention.

Thanks in advance.

-Lal


 On Feb 4, 2008 8:21 PM, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 07:44:45PM +0530, Lal wrote:
 > > I have developed a sample USB mass storage driver.
 >
 > I'm curious why the two existing drivers for this in the kernel did not
 > properly work out for you.  Are we not supporting something that you
 > found lacking?

 The existing drivers are working well indeed. I just wanted to learn
 the mechanism of block/usb drivers, and I wondered if I can do this by
 writing a sample driver.

 >
 > > Using this driver, I can mount file system on my CF card, and can
 > > read/write small files to/from CF card. However, the driver crashes
 > > while reading/writing large files.
 > > From kernel stack trace, it seems there is some synchronization issue
 > > with interrupts. I see kernel stack something like this:
 > >
 > > soft lockup detected on CPU#0
 >
 > Do you have a pointer to the source for your driver?  Without that, it's
 > going to be very hard to determine why problems are occuring.
 >
 The relevant source code has been uploaded at

 http://learner.kernel.googlepages.com/usb8in1.h
 http://learner.kernel.googlepages.com/usb_bulk.c
 http://learner.kernel.googlepages.com/usb_bulk.h
 http://learner.kernel.googlepages.com/usb_transport.c

 The function usb8in1_request (in file usb_bulk.c) receives block
 driver's request and postpone the request processing to workqueue
 function do_usb8in1_data_transfer (in usb_bulk.c), which submits urb
 and waits for response (in file usb_transport.c)

 As I mentioned earlier, this sample driver works for small files but
 crashes while reading larger files.

-Lal
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