From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] new usb stack and implicit timeouts
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:03:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40e9be7c0a41006682219e41b077f806@hamnavoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe321bcc50c2892eb6fa513c8063792f@quanstro.net>
> aren't there device types
> that take timeouts in their requests?
There might be, but if so, that's the business of the device's
own driver, not the usb driver.
> isn't it easier to set
> up time timeout at the beginning?
Not if you use normal read/write to talk to usb endpoints (which
seems to me a Good Thing). Normal read/write system call doesn't
have a timeout argument.
> are there devices that
> if given a timeout will give their best available data when
> the timeout expires?
Again, if so, that's for the device's driver to set up and deal with,
not the usb driver.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-19 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-19 7:16 cinap_lenrek
2009-07-19 7:21 ` Bruce Ellis
2009-07-19 7:54 ` cinap_lenrek
2009-07-19 9:07 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-19 11:05 ` Richard Miller
2009-07-19 11:30 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-19 11:51 ` Richard Miller
2009-07-19 11:56 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-19 13:40 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-19 13:53 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-19 14:03 ` Richard Miller [this message]
2009-07-19 14:32 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-19 15:14 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-19 15:46 ` cinap_lenrek
2009-07-19 15:58 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-20 7:12 ` Gorka Guardiola
2009-07-20 15:07 ` Dan Cross
2009-07-20 16:25 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-20 18:10 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2009-07-20 19:51 ` Dan Cross
2009-07-21 8:51 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-19 15:36 ` Richard Miller
2009-07-19 11:41 ` Charles Forsyth
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