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| author | Alan Stern | 2007-03-20 19:03:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina | 2007-04-11 10:36:02 +0200 |
| commit | 5e2a55f25d255a356bdaf2cb04c71b8d76c307a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 70321ca66f373922bb722f81b315e08b510a826d /drivers/hid | |
| parent | 48b4554aca28f721d3dfbab077c05032b3d1cd31 (diff) | |
USB HID: fix retry & reset logic
The USB HID driver fails to reset its error-retry timeout when there
has been a long time interval between I/O errors with no successful URB
completions in the meantime. As a result, the very next error would
trigger an immediate reset, even if it was a chance event occurring
long after the previous error.
More USB keyboards and mice than one might expect end up getting I/O
errors. Almost always this results from hardware problems of one sort of
another. For example, people attach the device to a USB extension cable,
which degrades the signal. Or they simply have poor quality cables to
begin with. Or they use a KVM switch which doesn't handle USB messages
correctly. Etc...
There have been reports from several users in which these I/O
errors would occur more or less randomly, at intervals ranging from
seconds to minutes. The error-handling code in hid-core.c was originally
meant for situations where a single outage would persist for a few hundred
ms (electromagnetic interference, for example). It didn't work right when
these more sporadic errors occurred, because of a flaw in the logic
which this patch fixes.
This patch (as873) fixes that oversight.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/hid')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c index 7c0fc11e972a..35a41e60f541 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c +++ b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c @@ -554,6 +554,11 @@ static void hid_io_error(struct hid_device *hid) if (usb_get_intfdata(usbhid->intf) == NULL) goto done; + /* If it has been a while since the last error, we'll assume + * this a brand new error and reset the retry timeout. */ + if (time_after(jiffies, usbhid->stop_retry + HZ/2)) + usbhid->retry_delay = 0; + /* When an error occurs, retry at increasing intervals */ if (usbhid->retry_delay == 0) { usbhid->retry_delay = 13; /* Then 26, 52, 104, 104, ... */ |