Re: [PATCH 1/1] USBHID: correct start/stop cycle

[Helge Deller]

Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 11/02/2008 12:02 AM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >
> > > `stop' left out usbhid->urb* pointers and so the next `start' thought
> > > it needs to allocate nothing and used the memory pointers previously
> > > pointed to. This led to memory corruption and device malfunction.
> [...]
> > could you please verify whether this patch fixes the corruption you were 
> > experiencing?
>
> btw. this is not expected to fix that, but if it does, the better ;).

I tried the patch and sadly it didn't fixed the parisc bug.

Helge

> This fixes
> echo DEVICE > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/DRIVER/unbind
> echo DEVICE > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/DRIVER/bind
> failures.
>
> But maybe parisc does something differently than x86 in bus handling so that it
> triggers...
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