Re: AW: AW: AW: PROBLEM: usb core looses input packets

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On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, EXTERNAL Gebhardt Guenter (external, RtP2/TEF7) wrote:

> >> I tested the device driver at two other PCs (a single and a quad CPU
> >> Intel processor) with three different kernels (i.e. distributions
> >> SuSE SLES 9, openSuSE 11.0, openSuSE 11.1) and it worked just fine.
> >>
> >> At the System which shows the problem we first used libusb 0.1.12 to communicate with the device,
> >> and the problem did not show up there.
> >>
> >> Then we began to develop our own device driver for some reason.
> >> Maybe the problem was not triggered with libusb, because with the kernel device driver the data throughput is now three times faster.
> >>
> >> I don't know if it gets lost by hardware or software.
> >
> > You should be able to find out by running those SuSE kernels on the
> > "bad" computer.  If the problem persists then it isn't caused by
> > software.
> >
> > Alan Stern
> 
> I just did that. The "bad" computer also shows the same error with openSuSE 11.0 the same error.
> This may point to a hardware problem?

And so does the fact that the problem goes away when you use the add-on 
PCI host controller card.

> But why does the problem not show up whith libusb?

I don't know.  Perhaps it has something to do with the timing of the 
packets.  libusb runs somewhat slower than kernel drivers, obviously.

Alan Stern

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