From: "Peter E. Berger" <[email protected]>

I found that when using newer Edgeport devices such as the EP/416,
idle ports are regularly bounced (disconnected and then reconnected).
I discussed this with the manufacturer (Digi International) and learned
that some newer Edgeport devices now ship from the factory running
firmware that requires periodic heartbeat messages from the driver, so
I enclose a proposed patch to implement their suggested mechanism (which
works both with old and new Edgeport devices).

While developing my heartbeat patch, I discovered that the firmware
download code was not working properly, so I also include two proposed
patches to fix this.

I welcome any comments or suggestions.

Thanks.
     --Peter

Changes since v5 [1]
Addressing Johan's review comments.  Thanks Johan!

 - Merge the ten v5 patches into three.
 - Move the ti_vsend_sync() "timeout" argument to the end of the
   argument list.


[1]: v5: http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=143439219222811&w=2

Peter E. Berger (3):
  USB: io_ti: Increase insufficient timeout for firmware downloads
  USB: io_ti: Move request_firmware() calls out of download_fw()
  USB: io_ti: Add heartbeat to keep idle Edgeport ports from
    disconnecting

 drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c | 216 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 150 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)

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1.8.3.1

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