Re: [PACTH v1] cdc-wdm: Clear read pipeline in case of error

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On 2016-08-02 09:59 AM, Oliver Neukum wrote:
On Tue, 2016-08-02 at 09:54 -0400, Robert Foss wrote:

On 2016-08-02 08:23 AM, Oliver Neukum wrote:
On Thu, 2016-07-28 at 14:19 -0400, robert.foss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Prathmesh Prabhu <pprabhu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Implemented queued response handling. This queue is processed every
time the
WDM_READ flag is cleared.

In case of a read error, userspace may not actually read the data,
since the
driver returns an error through wdm_poll. After this, the underlying
device may
attempt to send us more data, but the queue is not processed. While
userspace is
also blocked, because the read error is never cleared.

Could you explain why user space cannot just read more data?
That will clear the error.

Userspace certainly could read more data, but for the case when
userspace doesn't read and clear a potential an error, we still would
like to not be stuck if the device sends more data.

I hope that answers your question, if not I'll try to be more elaborate.

Clear, but why does that require the suppression of an error condition?
errors should always be delivered.

The goal is not to clear the error condition, but that is required to not stay stuck.

Maintaining the error condition and not staying stuck if the device sends more data are mutually exclusive as far as I understand it.


Rob.
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