[PATCH] Wait until device is ready after status request

Stefan Schmidt stefan at datenfreihafen.org
Tue Nov 9 21:53:12 CET 2010


Hello.

On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 23:04, Tormod Volden wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> >> In one case below it replaces a hardcoded 5 ms wait. If a device
> >> is broken and needs more time than it says, we should add quirks
> >> for the specific device.
> >
> > I agree with the concept, but we would need such a quirk system in place before
> > we change the default. The main problem is here that our main target the
> > Openmoko devices are broken in this regard. It does not report the time in
> > bwPollTimeout correctly.
> >
> > So I'm not going to apply this patch until such a quirk system exists.
> 
> I was browsing through the archive now and I see that this has been
> brought up before. Do your OpenMokos return 0, or some insane value?

Insane value.  :(

I had check for 0 to "detect" our broken bootloader but this quick fix failed.

> The DFU standard generously allows up to 4.7 hours :)

The values I had were pretty random sadly.

> I would like to make something a bit more nicer than a uncommented,
> magic 5000, also before we have a full quirk system in place.

Anything you have in mind here? Without a fixed number we could only trigger on
some high numbers we do not really expect from the device and rank it as broken
timeout value and fall back to a fixed timeout. Not sure if such a heuristic
will work out for many devices though.

> BTW, thanks for testing it on an OpenMoko, which I can not do. I
> understand dfu-util was originally made for it, so I respect that we
> do not want to break it.

I really want to see dfu-util support more devices but keeping it in a working
state for the openmoko devices while going forward is a must have for me. :)

Maybe I should look myself for some cheap usb dongles that support DFU. Some
cheap BT USB dongles or such should be ok. Just need to find out which are
supporting a firmware upgrade and which do only have ROM based firmware.

regards
Stefan Schmidt



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