The scanner (here DS3508) always returns 64 bytes per urb buffer. The first byte indicates the data length used in the current buffer. There even was a comment describing this. But the comment also said that we'll send everything in the buffer to the tty layer. That means sending the actual barcode data and lots of trailing zeroes. This patch lets the driver only send the real data. Signed-off-by: Philipp Hachtmann <hachti@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/serial/symbolserial.c | 18 ++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/symbolserial.c b/drivers/usb/serial/symbolserial.c index 6ed8044..37f3ad1 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/symbolserial.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/symbolserial.c @@ -60,17 +60,15 @@ static void symbol_int_callback(struct urb *urb) usb_serial_debug_data(&port->dev, __func__, urb->actual_length, data); + /* + * Data from the device comes with a 1 byte header: + * + * <size of data> <data>... + */ if (urb->actual_length > 1) { - data_length = urb->actual_length - 1; - - /* - * Data from the device comes with a 1 byte header: - * - * <size of data>data... - * This is real data to be sent to the tty layer - * we pretty much just ignore the size and send everything - * else to the tty layer. - */ + data_length = data[0]; + if (data_length > (urb->actual_length - 1)) + data_length = urb->actual_length - 1; tty_insert_flip_string(&port->port, &data[1], data_length); tty_flip_buffer_push(&port->port); } else { -- 2.1.4 -- 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