Hi Herton,

On Monday 08 June 2009 16:35:15 Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> Em Domingo 07 Junho 2009, às 19:41:05, Laurent Pinchart escreveu:
> > Hi Herton,
> >
> > On Thursday 04 June 2009 19:23:17 Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> > > Em Quinta-feira 04 Junho 2009, às 07:41:03, Laurent Pinchart escreveu:
> > > > Hi Herton,
> > > >
> > > > On Wednesday 03 June 2009 23:02:33 Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> > > > > Fix this by not failing entirely if we have found an invalid
> > > > > format, as we can still have a valid format. The initial problem
> > > > > and solution (patch) was debugged and done by Clevo (probably by
> > > > > Michael Wang), which uses the affected webcam in one of their
> > > > > laptops. I'm forwarding their fix plus additional code that I
> > > > > noticed to be needed for generic cases that decrements properly
> > > > > streaming->nformats and checks later if we really found at least
> > > > > one valid format, and if there were really no valid formats we make
> > > > > sure then to return with error.
> > > >
> > > > What about modifying uvc_parse_streaming() to stop parsing the
> > > > interface descriptors when it encounters a non CS Interface
> > > > descriptor instead ? Something like
> > >
> > > Yep, it works for me too and it's better since then we don't allocate
> > > extra memory that we don't use for streaming->format
> > >
> > > But your solution stops to count formats at the first buffer[1] !=
> > > CS_INTERFACE, is it possible that CS_INTERFACE and ! CS_INTERFACE are
> > > mixed? (!= CS_INTERFACE not always the last one) In this case is better
> > > to continue, like patch below:
> >
> > In theory, yes, the device can be as buggy as you want :-) Don't forget
> > that we're dealing with UVC devices here, so I don't expect buggy devices
> > to be the norm. I'd rather apply my patch, as it's less intrusive, and
> > deal with other buggy devices later if needed.
>
> Yep, for me it's fine also applying the less intrusive approach, lets hope
> we don't get more buggy ones :)

Ok. I'll submit the less intrusive patch and I'll cross my fingers :-)

Best regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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