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SubjectRe: [3.16.1 BISECTED REGRESSION]: Simtec Entropy Key (cdc-acm) broken in 3.16
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 11:24:59PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> On 11 Oct 2014, Paul Martin spake thusly:
>
> > Having been privy to the firmware of the eKey, it is very simplistic,
> > with no implementation whatsoever of any flow control.
>
> That's what I thought. (Why would something that just provides data at a
> constant rate way below that of even the slowest USB bus *need* flow
> control?)
>
> One presumes therefore that the kernel suddenly trying to do flow
> control on shutdown would fubar the firmware's internal state, leading
> to the symptoms I see.
>
> So, the question becomes, is there a way to spot this general 'no flow
> control on this device' thing from the kernel side, or do we need a
> blacklist? Or, perhaps, if this is commonplace for cdc-acm devices, a
> whitelist? I can't imagine it's *that* commonplace or someone would have
> spotted this already in the months and months it took me to do the
> bisection.
>
> Maybe all non-modem cdc-acm devices should eschew flow control, or
> something? (This is a genuine guess and is almost certainly wrong.)
>

I'm going to pass this on to Daniel Silverstone, who did the actual
coding of the firmware.

--
Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>


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