29 July 2005, Cambridge, MA:
This afternoon Alan Stern submitted a patch to remove the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK
flag from the Linux kernel. Mr. Stern explained, "This flag is a relic
from an earlier, less-well-designed system. For over a year it hasn't
been used for anything other than printing warning messages."
An anonymous spokesman for the Linux kernel development community
commented, "This is exactly the sort of thing we see happening all the
time. As the kernel evolves, support for old techniques and old code can
be jettisoned and replaced by newer, better approaches. Proprietary
operating systems do not have the freedom or flexibility to change so
quickly."
Mr. Stern, a staff member at Harvard University's Rowland Institute who
works on Linux only as a hobby, noted that the patch (labelled as548) did
not update two files, keyspan.c and option.c, in the USB drivers' "serial"
subdirectory. "Those files need more extensive changes," he remarked.
"They examine the status field of several URBs at times when they're not
supposed to. That will need to be fixed before the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK flag
is removed."
Greg Kroah-Hartman, the kernel maintainer responsible for overseeing all
of Linux's USB drivers, did not respond to our inquiries or return our
calls. His only comment was "Applied, thanks."
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch started life as as479b, and has been rediffed. Please note
the order of submission of this latest patch series -- even tho this has
an older original number, it is the last patch I'll be sending today.
This patch changes the reported SCSI revision level to 2 for all
disk-type devices. This is needed in a few cases because the device
reports a level of 3 or higher but then crashes when given a REPORT LUNS
command (for which support is supposed to be mandatory at those levels).
This shouldn't harm us, since it only matters for sparse LUNs and we
have separate ways of coping with that.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch is originally from Nick Sillik, and has been rediffed against
the latest tree.
This patch adds usability to the OneTouch Button on Maxtor External USB
Hard Drives. Using an unusual device entry it declares an extra init
function which claims the interrupt endpoint associated with this
button. The button is connected to the input system.
Signed-off-by: Nick Sillik <n.sillik@temple.edu>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch started life as as534, and has been re-diffed against the latest
tree.
usb-storage has a small loophole, a window between the time queuecommand
accepts a new command and the time the control thread starts to execute
it. If disconnect is called during that window, the driver won't cancel
the pending command -- we've been relying on the SCSI core to cancel it
for us during host removal. But it's better for usb-storage to cancel
it; this avoids races and reduces reliance on the SCSI core.
Fortunately cancelling these commands is easy to do; the key is to do it
_before_ calling scsi_remove_host.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch started life as as533, and has been re-diffed against the
current tree.
Disconnect processing in usb-storage naturally divides into two parts:
one to quiesce the driver (make sure no commands are executing or
queued) and remove the host, and the other to deallocate all the USB and
non-USB resources. This patch creates two subroutines to handle those
two parts. Mostly it's just code movement, but there is one significant
change. If the scsi-scanning thread fails to initialize but the host
has successfully been added, we need to quiesce the driver before
removing the host. After all, it's possible that scanning could have
been initiated from somewhere else, such as userspace -- very low
probability, but it's easily handled by calling the new subroutine.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch started life as as531 from Alan Stern. It has been rediffed
against the latest tree.
The SCSI people have deprecated the use of scsi_cmnd.serial_number for
anything other than printk. Worse than that, the SCSI core doesn't
always increment the number (when the error handler is running, for
example). So this patch creates a locally-stored value for use in
bulk-only tags. The net result is a simplification, since we no longer
have to save & restore the serial_number value while autosensing.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch adds an entry in the unusual_devs.h file for a Mitsumi card
reader/floppy combo that uses a VIA chipset. The IGNORE_RESIDUE flag was
needed for the second LUN to operate properly.
Signed-off-by: Mihnea-Costin Grigore <mihnea@zulu.ro>
Signed-off-by: Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch removes an unneeded subclass and protocol from the
07af/0005/100 entry in unsual_devs.h as reported by Alfred Ganz
<alfred-ganz@agci.com>.
Signed-off-by: Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch started life as as527, and was rediffed by me.
Since the IDE interface doesn't convey much information about types of
errors, many USB-IDE adapters report all low-level errors with SK = 0x04,
which is supposed to be used only for non-recoverable errors. As a result
the SCSI midlayer doesn't retry the command. But quite often a retry
would succeed, whereas an unnecessary retry doesn't really hurt anything.
This patch uses a recently-implemented flag to tell the SCSI midlayer that
such hardware errors should be retried.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch causes a port reset whenever there's a transport error or abort.
If that fails it reverts back to doing a mass-storage device reset. It
started life as as497 and was rediffed by me.
This makes error recovery a lot quicker and more reliable.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch does two things to help reset recovery. It started life as
as496 and was rediffed by me.
First, the patch checks the result of a CLEAR_HALT request and doesn't reset the
endpoint's data toggle unless the request succeeded.
Second, it reduces the timeout for a device reset from 20 seconds to 5
seconds.
If all goes well, then I've finally figured quilt out and this patch should
apply cleanly.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
1. Establish a simple API for process freezing defined in linux/include/sched.h:
frozen(process) Check for frozen process
freezing(process) Check if a process is being frozen
freeze(process) Tell a process to freeze (go to refrigerator)
thaw_process(process) Restart process
frozen_process(process) Process is frozen now
2. Remove all references to PF_FREEZE and PF_FROZEN from all
kernel sources except sched.h
3. Fix numerous locations where try_to_freeze is manually done by a driver
4. Remove the argument that is no longer necessary from two function calls.
5. Some whitespace cleanup
6. Clear potential race in refrigerator (provides an open window of PF_FREEZE
cleared before setting PF_FROZEN, recalc_sigpending does not check
PF_FROZEN).
This patch does not address the problem of freeze_processes() violating the rule
that a task may only modify its own flags by setting PF_FREEZE. This is not clean
in an SMP environment. freeze(process) is therefore not SMP safe!
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The original entry of this patch was submitted by Filippo Bardelli
<filibard@libero.it>, with cleanups and patch-ification by me.
This corrects the subclass that the device reports.
Signed-off-by: Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch adds an unusual_devs entry for the Minolta Dimage Z10.
Originally reported by Vilisas <vilisas@xxx.lt>
Signed-off-by: Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch fixes a compiler error caused by a missing prototype. It should
apply directly to Greg KH's usb-2.6.git tree.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Phil Dibowitz wrote:
> 1. You're adding product IDs 1202, 1203, 1204, and 1205. 1203 was
> already there, but you remove it, OK, but 1205 is already there, so
> you'll need to fix that.
I was not removing 1203, it's just the extension of the bcd range. You are
right about 1205, as I wrote, it was a patch against 2.6.11.7. Attached is
a patch against 2.6.12-rc2.
> 2. I'm OK with the full bcd range if Apple is changing it on firmware
> revs... fine, but it's bcd, not hex... 0x9999 =)
I just copied from other entries. There're a lot 0xffffs in unusual_dev.h,
so I assumed it is correct. I changed it to 0x9999.
> 3. It's rather obnoxious to take the original submitter's credit away.
I didn't remove it, I changed it to "based on...". Because I changed
something (the range) in his entry, I thought it is the best to take the
responsibility but keep the origin. Anyway, in the new patch I did it in a
different way.
> 4. Your /proc/bus/usb/devices shows 1204, but I see no evidence 1202 is
> really an iPod.
I don't have an old iPod mini, but you find a lot of evidence here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=0x1202+ipod
Especially this one:
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdescr.php?id=2737
> It also looks like 1205's entry is getting mangled, but I haven't
> attempted to apply the patch, so I'm not sure.
No, the patch was ok, but I agree it looks strange. It's not very
readable, because I cannot tell diff to work blockwise instead of
linewise. Because of the similarity of the entries, diff splits and merges
them. Anyway, the new patch "looks" better. ;-)
Signed-off-by: Sven Anderson <sven-linux@anderson.de>
Signed-off-by: Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Get rid of a bunch of redundant NULL pointer checks in drivers/usb/*,
there's no need to check a pointer for NULL before calling kfree() on it.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Index: gregkh-2.6/drivers/usb/class/audio.c
===================================================================
This patch changes the delay for the US_FL_GO_SLOW patch from 110us to 125.
Some delays need this extra delay includign Jan De Luyck's drive which spawned
the original increase from 110 to 110us. 125 is a microframe, so this delay
seems to make sense more than just be a random delay (thanks to David Brownell
for pointing that out after my original patch).
Signed-off-by: Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Index: gregkh-2.6/drivers/usb/storage/transport.c
===================================================================
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
