[U-Boot] [patch 0/2] Some more USB-OHCI bugfixes [V2]

Markus Klotzbücher mk at denx.de
Tue Oct 14 17:13:40 CEST 2008


Dear Remy,

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:23:20AM +0200, Remy Bohmer wrote:
> This is version 2 of these series!
> Only patch 1 of 2 has changed, some pedantic Coding Style issues updated that
> were not detected by Linux/scripts/checkpatch.pl.
> 
> The USB OHCI init procedure sets the maximum message length the wrong way.
> A max of 64 bits should not be done by writing '64' in maxpacketsize, but '3'.
> While fixing this problem it turned out that there is more wrong here in this
> code it turned out that the wrong bits were checked to determine if the pipe
> was of type PIPE_INTERRUPT. This series fixes those errors also.
> 
> I made it 2 seperate patches. The 1st of this series is fully tested and correct
> on at least the AT91SAM9261 cores.
> 
> The 2nd patch, however, is created by search-for-the-same-errors-and-replace.
> I am not able to test that patch, I do not have the boards, so that needs to be
> done by others or by review. It is clear that code there is buggy in the
> first place.
> 
> These patches require my previous series called
> 'Improve stability USB memory sticks for the common OHCI USB layer.' to be
> applied before this series. So they should apply on the u-boot-usb git tree.
> --> git://git.denx.de/u-boot-usb.git
> 
> I want to mention also, that everytime I look deeper into this code, I find new
> bugs. It appears that several parts of this code is written with interrupt
> handling in mind, while we have no interrupt handling at all.
> Assumptions are done that a interrupt handler does things asynchronous, causing
> long loops that have no real use at all...
> So, no guarantees that _all_ problems are solved by now...

Both patches passed my usual sequoia regression test, so I added both
to the USB custodian repository.

If nobody reports any regressions I intend to send Wolfgang a pull
request in upcoming merge window.

Thanks!

Best regards
Markus


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