On Friday 23 March 2007 9:11 am, Alan Stern wrote:

> We don't clear the halt because the host is never supposed to clear halts
> on ep0.  If the halt is a "protocol stall" (the normal case) then the
> device will clear it automatically when it receives the next SETUP packet.  
> If the halt is a "functional stall" (discouraged by the USB spec) 

yes ...

> there 
> is no way to clear it -- the Clear-Halt request won't get through because
> ep0 is halted!

... no, that's a special case.  Oddball devices that implement halt
status on ep0 must allow clear-halt requests for it too.  See 8.5.3.4
and (especially) the end of 9.4.5 ...

Linux "should" handle such oddball devices.  Is it clear that this
is one of those cases?

- Dave

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