Dear Alan, Dear Greg, On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 11:12:28AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > The thing is, I'm afraid that without these retry loops, some devices > will stop working. If that happens, we will not be able to keep this > patch in place; we will just have to accept that we fail the PET test. > > Alan Stern Does this mean that Linux community leaves no choice but to ship a forked kernel (with no chance of alignment to upstream) for organizations which design embedded devices where USB plays a key role, hence requires passing the USB-IF Compliance Program [*]? Is there hope to give users a knob (build-time or run-time) which would enable the behavior expected and thoroughly described in compliance docs, particularly chapter "6.7.22 A-UUT Device No Response for connection timeout" of "USB On-The-Go and Embedded Host Automated Compliance Plan" [**]? [*] https://www.usb.org/compliance [**] https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/otgeh_compliance_plan_1_2.pdf -- Best regards, Eugeniu Rosca
