Re: [PATCH 1/1] NET: usb: Adding URB_ZERO_PACKET flag to usbnet.c

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On Tuesday 06 April 2010, you wrote:
Recall that the reason to avoid sending zero length packts
(ZLPs) is that many systems don't cope well with them...

The ""don't cope well" can be at the hardware level,
or drivers not limited to device firmware.  I've seen
the failures be very context-dependent .... as in, one
standalone ZLP might work, but mix it in with back-to-back
delivery of other packets and trouble ensues...
  
In short, it's hard to know which combinations of
hardware an firmware would need it .... versus which
ones it would break.

... and thus risky to try sending ZLPs through systems
shere for many years) we've carefully avoided doing that.


- Dave
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