Re: NEC HCD interrupt message limitation

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On Mon, 11 May 2009, Dwayne Fontenot <dwayne.fontenot@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > I appreciate any input on how to proceed with debugging this issue.
> > 
> > Is it always the same 24?  That is, if you run your test twice in a 
> > row, do you receive messages back from the same 24 devices each time?  
> 
> I ran the test five times and the same 24 devices came back each time.
> 
> > Is there any relation between the missing responses and the order in 
> > which your program submits its interrupt URBs?
> 
> The 24 devices which come back are the first 24 interrupt URBs which are submitted.

Have you tested this by changing the order in which the URBs are 
submitted?

> > Does it make any difference if you never have more than a single
> > interrupt URB pending at any time (i.e., testing the devices one by 
> > one)?
> 
> I'm not sure about this one; we wrote a USB driver to talk to the RUs and it submits
> an interrupt URB for each device in the probe() function.
> The driver re-submits the interrupt URB for each device in the interrupt message callback
> function.

So take the resubmission out of the completion routine and see what 
happens.

> So far none of the interrupt USB submissions (including those after the first 24 on probe)
> are returning errors.

All of this suggests that there's something wrong with the way the NEC
host controller iterates through the periodic list.  In other words, a
hardware problem.

Alan Stern

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