linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [RFC] BTUSB: be quiet on device disconnect

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1108091159050.1949-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Tue, 9 Aug 2011 12:00:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
cc:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	"Gustavo F. Padovan" <padovan@...fusion.mobi>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	<linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] BTUSB: be quiet on device disconnect

On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Paul Bolle wrote:

> 1) I added Greg and linux-usb@...r.kernel.org because usb_submit_urb()
> doesn't specify the meaning of its negative return values. I traced

In fact, many of these values are documented in 
Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt.

> -EPERM to usb_hcd_link_urb_to_ep(). That returns -EPERM if the urb is
> "being killed". Did I trace the calls made by usb_submit_urb()
> correctly? I also just assumed that -ENODEV always means device got
> disconnected or something comparable. Is that correct too?

Yes, those are both correct.

Alan Stern

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