This rings a small bell with me.
There was a change by Dan Streetman IIRC to limit
usbdevfs bulk transfers to PAGE_SIZE (4 KB for x86,
or 0x1000). Anything larger than that returns
an error (-EINVAL).
~Randy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: antirez [mailto:antirez@invece.org]
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 6:40 PM
> To: antirez
> Cc: Greg KH; Heitzso; 'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org';
> 'Johannes Erdfelt'
> Subject: Re: USB broken in 2.4.0
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 12:04:29AM +0100, antirez wrote:
> > I'll do some test with the new 2.4 kernel to find if there
> is a problem
> > in s10sh itself. A good test can be to try if the equivalent driver
> > of gphoto works without problems using the 2.4 kernel
> (however it also
> > uses the libusb). The s10sh bug may be not necessarly
> related to the USB
> > subsystem.
>
> Ok, the problem is the same that I ecountered developing the file
> upload for the powershot USB driver performing a bulk write with
> a big data size, but this time it is present even reading.
>
> s10sh reads 0x1400 bytes at once downloading jpges from the
> digicam, but the ioctl() that performs the bulk read fails with 2.4
> using this size. If I resize it (for example to 0x300) it
> works without
> problems (with high performace penality, of course, 60% of slow-down).
> I don't know why. I checked at the time of the file upload the kernel
> code finding nothing.
>
> Anyway with the old releases of the USB subsystem libusb failed to
> initialize the camera some time, now it seems fixed.
>
> For the users: just edit usb.c and check the function USB_get_data(),
> substituting all the occurrence of 0x1400 to 0x300 as a work-around.
>
> Please CC: me since I'm not subscribed to the list.
>
> regards,
> antirez
>
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