On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2006 18:28 schrieb Alan Stern: > > In general I think it's more correct to pay attention to I/O errors and > > try to repair them than to ignore them. After all, with any reasonable > > device these errors do indicate a genuine problem. But with KVM switches > > we don't have any choice. When you get right down to it, they break the > > USB protocol. > > Then why do you solve this at the hid level? Shouldn't all errors going over > such devices be ignored?
They probably should. But where else in the USB stack do we expect KVM switches to be installed? Generally they affect only keyboards and mice (maybe trackballs too). Also, we don't want to start ignoring all errors just because one or two devices go through a KVM. Of course we will still have to deal with keyboards containing an embedded hub. But that's another kettle of fish. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
