Re: 2.6.3-bk9 QA testing: firewire good, USB printing dead

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 07:57:32PM -0700, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> 
> With 2.6.3-bk9, I also had a block of two mainboard USB ports simply
> stop functioning -- to the point of even no longer sending power to the
> USB hub that I was using.

That's not good.  Are these real usb 2.0 printers?  Can you run them in
1.1 mode instead (just don't load the ehci-hcd driver)?

If that also fails, here's the only usblp patch in 2.6.3-bk9.  If you
revert it, does that solve the problem?

thanks,

greg k-h


diff -Nru a/drivers/usb/class/usblp.c b/drivers/usb/class/usblp.c
--- a/drivers/usb/class/usblp.c	Fri Feb 27 22:42:31 2004
+++ b/drivers/usb/class/usblp.c	Fri Feb 27 22:42:31 2004
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@
 {
 	DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);
 	struct usblp *usblp = file->private_data;
-	int timeout, err = 0;
+	int timeout, err = 0, transfer_length;
 	size_t writecount = 0;
 
 	while (writecount < count) {
@@ -654,19 +654,13 @@
 			continue;
 		}
 
-		writecount += usblp->writeurb->transfer_buffer_length;
-		usblp->writeurb->transfer_buffer_length = 0;
+		transfer_length=(count - writecount);
+		if (transfer_length > USBLP_BUF_SIZE)
+			transfer_length = USBLP_BUF_SIZE;
 
-		if (writecount == count) {
-			up (&usblp->sem);
-			break;
-		}
+		usblp->writeurb->transfer_buffer_length = transfer_length;
 
-		usblp->writeurb->transfer_buffer_length = (count - writecount) < USBLP_BUF_SIZE ?
-							  (count - writecount) : USBLP_BUF_SIZE;
-
-		if (copy_from_user(usblp->writeurb->transfer_buffer, buffer + writecount,
-				usblp->writeurb->transfer_buffer_length)) {
+		if (copy_from_user(usblp->writeurb->transfer_buffer, buffer + writecount, transfer_length)) {
 			up(&usblp->sem);
 			return writecount ? writecount : -EFAULT;
 		}
@@ -683,6 +677,8 @@
 			break;
 		}
 		up (&usblp->sem);
+
+		writecount += transfer_length;
 	}
 
 	return count;
-
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