linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usbcore: fix BABBLE failed enumeration of legacy USB2 devices on USB3 bus

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Date:	Tue, 7 Jan 2014 16:32:37 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Marius Silaghi <msilaghi@....edu>
Cc:	Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com>,
	"linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@...el.com>,
	Xenia Ragiadakou <burzalodowa@...il.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbcore: fix BABBLE failed enumeration of legacy USB2
 devices on USB3 bus

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 04:19:18AM +0000, Marius  Silaghi wrote:
> From: Marius C Silaghi <msilaghi@....edu>
> 
> This patch is generated against the last kernel version in the github kernel repository.

We work off of the git.kernel.org trees, not github :)


> Some older families of USB2 cameras (STC-XXXXXUSB) do not support querying only the first 8 bytes of their 
> device descriptor and therefore fail at enumeration on USB3 HCDs, with babble error -75 as they send more than
> the expected 8 bytes. The proposed patch extends the mechanism used for non USB3 HCDs in the first part of 
> the same function, and  successively tries to query both the 8 byte prefix of the device descriptor, as well as 
> the whole device descriptor (in case the old style query of the 8 byte prefix fails).
> In fact, for the cameras I try to fix, the preferred condition is the negation of the one in the proposed patch,  
> "if (!USE_NEW_SCHEME(retry_counter))", to try first the version successful on this case, but I keep the 
> current order of the "if" branches to ensure clean continuation of support for other supported devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marius C Silaghi <msilaghi@....edu>

I'll let Sarah take this patch, if it passes her testing.

thanks,

greg k-h
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