RE: [PATCH net 1/2] r8152: fix the sw rx checksum is unavailable

From: Hayes Wang
Date: Fri Nov 25 2016 - 04:52:53 EST


Mark Lord [mailto:mlord@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, November 25, 2016 3:11 AM
[...]
> On 16-11-24 02:00 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 01:34:08PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> >> One thought: bulk data streams are byte streams, not packets.
> >> Scheduling on the USB bus can break up larger transfers across
> >> multiple in-kernel buffers. A "real" URB buffer on USB2 is max 512 bytes.
> >> The driver is providing 16384-byte buffers, and assumes that data will
> >> never spill over from one such buffer to the next.
> >> Yet the observations here consistently show otherwise.
> >
> > Wait, how do you know that data will not spill over? What is making
> > that guarantee? Will the USB device send a "zero packet" in order to
> > show that all of the "logical" data is now sent for this specific
> > endpoint? Is there some sort of "framing" that the device does with the
> > USB data so that the driver "knows" where the end of packet is?
>
> Exactly my point.
>
> > Check the zero-packet stuff for this device, that's tripped up many a
> > USB driver writer over the years, myself included.
>
> I haven't tripped over it myself, but only because we were careful
> to allow for such in the USB drivers I have worked on.
>
> The r8152 driver just assumes it never happens.

What is the value of /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/control ?
Could you make sure it is "on" and try again?
Or you could call usb_disable_autosuspend() in probe().

Best Regards,
Hayes