Re: USB: Fix usb_fill_int_urb for SuperSpeed and Wireless

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Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 01:05:40PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 08:24:15PM +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
>>> Sarah Sharp wrote:
>>>> From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> USB 3 and Wireless USB specify a logarithmic encoding of the endpoint
>>>> interval that matches the USB 2 specification.  usb_fill_int_urb()
>>>> didn't know that and was filling in the interval as if it was USB 1.1.
>>>> As noted in the updated comment, Wireless USB uses 128us instead of 125us,
>>>> but it's still logarithmic.
>>> The rest of the  system requires that urb->interval for WUSB urbs uses
>>> the bInterval encoding.  So don't change this function for WUSB.
>> That, um, doesn't seem like the best design decision.  It seems to me
>> that we should have a consistent encoding in urb->interval no matter what
>> the underlying *hci is.  Whether that means that USB2 should be changed,
>> or WUSB should be changed (and at this point, I have no idea whether USB3
>> is doing the right thing or not), I really don't have a strong opinion.
>> But I do think that USB2, WUSB and USB3 should do the _same_ thing.
>> Do you agree?
> 
> David, ping?

I'm not sure what you're waiting for.  Given that urb->interval will
eventually go away I see no problem with the inconsistancy between
different types of devices remaining for the time being.  Sarah or
Matthew should respin the patch to only affect Superspeed devices.

David
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