On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 00:09 -0500, Peter E. Berger wrote: > From: "Peter E. Berger" <pberger@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > I found that when using newer Edgeport devices such as the EP/416, > idle ports are regularly bounced (disconnected and then reconnected). > I discussed this with the manufacturer (Digi International) and learned > that newer Edgeport devices now ship from the factory running firmware > that requires periodic heartbeat messages from the driver, so I enclose > a proposed patch which implements their suggested mechanism (which works > both with old and new Edgeport devices). > > While developing my heartbeat patch, I discovered that the firmware > download code was not working properly, so I include a second proposed > patch to fix this. > > I welcome any comments or suggestions. Looks good to me now. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html