netdev - Re: [PATCH] usbnet: Activate the halt interrupt endpoint to fix endless "XactErr" error

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Date:	Fri, 8 Jun 2012 23:24:08 +0800
From:	Huajun Li <huajun.li.lee@...il.com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbnet: Activate the halt interrupt endpoint to fix
 endless "XactErr" error

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Huajun Li wrote:
>
>> > If so, looks mistaken value is returned from the host controller driver,
>> > but not sure if your device is buggy. What is your host controller?
>> >
>> Nothing related to HC.
>> I tried to find out the endpoint state, but found it was halt. I think
>> this is the root cause.
>
> No, it isn't.  Endpoint halt causes a -EPIPE error, not -EPROTO.
> -EPROTO indicates that the device's firmware has crashed.
>
>> What's your opinion to handle "-EPROTO" error in usbnet.c?
>> Please check usbnet.c again, when "-EPROTO" occurs, it just pints
>> error msg and re-submit the interrupt URB, and then causes endless
>> "EactErr" error msg.
>
> One possibility is to wait for a little while before resubmitting the
> URB, and after 10 failures in a row, attempt a reset.
>
Alan, thanks for your proposal.
You mean reset the device after 10 failures, right ?

BTW, I ever tried to sleep several seconds before submitting the 1st
interrupt URB, but it did not work.
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