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Date:      Mon, 2 Jan 2012 19:02:16 +0100
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
To:        Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: M-Audio Oxygen 49: snd_uaudio cycles (loads, detaches, loads.... ad infinitum)
Message-ID:  <201201021902.16849.hselasky@c2i.net>
In-Reply-To: <4F01CC65.2070408@ladisch.de>
References:  <1325263531.4997.4.camel@localhost> <201112302241.55813.hselasky@c2i.net> <4F01CC65.2070408@ladisch.de>

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On Monday 02 January 2012 16:25:25 Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > It looks like your device has a problem with the clear-stall of the BULK
> > endpoint used for MIDI. In other words it is not fully USB compliant.
> 
> After devices whose descriptors were so broken that they couldn't ever
> run with newer Windows versions, after devices where (only!) the capture
> interface used big-endian samples, and after devices that corrupted
> their data buffer when receiving MIDI data with running status, I'm
> *extremely* surprised that there would be another M-Audio device with
> firmware bugs.
> 
> > I'm not sure how we can avoid this.
> 
> Plain MIDI does not have any error detection, so there is no error
> condition that could be reported with a stall.  I've never seen
> a stalled MIDI endpoint, except for devices with broken hardware where
> the endpoint was stalled from the beginning and where a clear-stall
> wouldn't help.
> 
> The Linux driver neither detects nor clears stalls, and works fine.
> 
> It's obvious that clear-stall requests are not well tested in MIDI
> devices' firmwares, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were other
> devices that have the same bug, or even lock up.
> 
> Is there a reason that umidi_probe/_open unconditionally issue clear-
> stalls, other than "just to be safe"?

The reason is just to clear any buffered data from previous transfers. We 
could probably skip this.

--HPS



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