Re: [RFC 3/4] Intel xhci: Ignore spurious successful event.

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On Thu, 26 May 2011, Sarah Sharp wrote:

> > If, as you say, the spurious events are allowed (or at least, not
> > disallowed) by the xHCI spec, then why bother to test an
> > XHCI_SPURIOUS_SUCCESS flag?  You might as well assume that any
> > controller can generate these events.
> 
> It's a twisted interpretation of the spec that makes this behavior not
> disallowed, so I think it's pretty unlikely that any other xHCI host
> controller will do this.  At least, I haven't seen this behavior on any
> of the other host controllers I've tested on.  I'd rather have hardware
> developers who are testing new host controllers see the spew of messages
> and realize they're doing something kind of stupid.  We can add a new
> quirk for them if they still decide to ship their hardware.

Do xHCI hardware developers really test their controllers under Linux?  
That would be a welcome change from the corporate strategies we've seen 
in the past.  :-)

Alan Stern

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