[U-Boot] [PATCH] USB-CDC: called handle_interrupts inside usb_eth_send

Stefano Babic sbabic at denx.de
Thu Aug 12 14:33:12 CEST 2010


Remy Bohmer wrote:

> Looking at this I agree that this packet_sent flag should be reset on
> every usb_eth_send().

Ok

>> Should I protect the line with some AT91 CONFIG or am I missing something ?
> 
> No, it should be AT91 specific...
> 
> Looking at the flow on at91 we see that this happens:
> ether.c:usb_eth_send()
> 	gadget.h:usb_ep_queue()
> 		at91_udc.c:at91_ep_queue()
> 			at91_udc.c:write_fifo()
> 				at91_udc.c:done()
> 					req->req.complete()
> 						tx_complete()
> 							packet_send = 1
> 

Ok, understood.

> The packet is transmitted in the context of the usb_ep_queue()
> routine, not in the context of the interrupt handler.
> So, the timeout should incorporate usb_ep_queue also.
> 
> I think this is better:
>        ts = get_timer(0);
>        packet_sent=0;
>        retval = usb_ep_queue (dev->in_ep, req, GFP_ATOMIC);
> 
> compared to:
>        ts = get_timer(0);
>        packet_sent=0;
>        while(!packet_sent)
> 

Yes, agree, it should be enough to call usb_ep_queue after clearing the
flag as you suggest.

> But I must mention that I have not yet tested it though...

It does not matter. I will repost the whole patch series with the
comments we get up now. After that we can do some more tests to check if
I break something...

Best regards,
Stefano

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