[U-Boot] ehci-hcd: Allow cleanups to happen on an EHCI timeout.

Joel A Fernandes agnel.joel at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 01:47:16 CEST 2011


Hi Simon,

Thanks a lot for reviewing the issue.

>>> With respect to using a bulk USB stick (some of which take 3s or more
>>> to respond to a submit) this doesn't make any difference for me. It
>>> seems to take a long time to respond the first time, so the 5s timeout
>>> seems prudent.
>>>
>>> Since this sorts out the network side we can probably skip that patch.
>>>
>>
>> Are you suggesting we revert the patch you had submitted [2], instead
>> of deleting the goto line as done in my patch? I think it would be
>> better if we left [2] in and allowed the async disable to happen after
>> a timeout like I'm doing.
>>
>> There are other patches that are reported to fix the issue such as [3]
>> and [4], but I think they are more like workarounds and delay the
>> occurrence of the event of a timeout itself. A timeout which would
>> occur for any other reason such as too many USB devices connected to
>> the hub can trigger the problem, and, not running async schedule and
>> the other code after the timeout seems to make EHCI unrecoverable.
>
> My feeling was that the time was more a function of the device that is
> plugged in than the USB port/peripheral. Perhaps someone will find a
> device which needs a 10s timeout, so I agree just increasing it is not
> really the solution.
>
> I found that once the device timed out it needed a reset to work -
> just resubmitting the urb didn't work for me. Maybe I had some other
> problem.
>
> Anyway I think your patch looks good, thank you.
>

Could I add your Acked-by to the submission as well?

thanks,

Joel


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