Re: ieee1394 feature needed: overwrite SPLIT_TIMEOUT from userspace

2007-01-15 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
On 1/15/07, Philipp Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for your input. My post was based on the (wrong) idea that the kernel already uses different timeout values per node. Therefore, having read your answer, I have a different opinion about how to solve this now. About your suggestions:

Re: ieee1394 feature needed: overwrite SPLIT_TIMEOUT from userspace

2007-01-15 Thread Stefan Richter
On 15 Jan, Philipp Beyer wrote: > In fact steps 01-09 describe what I had in mind pretty well :-) Of course there are many more possibilities. In case of SBP-2 for example, there are - huge command + data buffers on the PC (or a 3rd node), - a status register on the PC, - a notification regist

Re: ieee1394 feature needed: overwrite SPLIT_TIMEOUT from userspace

2007-01-15 Thread Philipp Beyer
> > I will now try to work around this problem in userspace basically by > > ignoring the timeout error. > > I.e. something similar but less sophisticated than the protocol 01...09? > In fact steps 01-09 describe what I had in mind pretty well :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: ieee1394 feature needed: overwrite SPLIT_TIMEOUT from userspace

2007-01-15 Thread Stefan Richter
Philipp Beyer wrote: > Thanks for your input. My post was based on the (wrong) idea that > the kernel already uses different timeout values per node. > > Therefore, having read your answer, I have a different opinion about > how to solve this now. > > About your suggestions: > Unfortunately sendi

Re: ieee1394 feature needed: overwrite SPLIT_TIMEOUT from userspace

2007-01-15 Thread Philipp Beyer
Thanks for your input. My post was based on the (wrong) idea that the kernel already uses different timeout values per node. Therefore, having read your answer, I have a different opinion about how to solve this now. About your suggestions: Unfortunately sending an early response and using a sec

Re: ieee1394 feature needed: overwrite SPLIT_TIMEOUT from userspace

2007-01-13 Thread Stefan Richter
(full quote for linux1394-devel) On 12 Jan, Philipp Beyer wrote to linux-kernel: > Hi, > > I'm investigating an unwanted behaviour of our firewire devices in > connection with the ieee1394 kernel module. > > The problem is caused by a non standard-conform behaviour of our > devices. Anyway, cha

ieee1394 feature needed: overwrite SPLIT_TIMEOUT from userspace

2007-01-12 Thread Philipp Beyer
Hi, I'm investigating an unwanted behaviour of our firewire devices in connection with the ieee1394 kernel module. The problem is caused by a non standard-conform behaviour of our devices. Anyway, changes on the device-side dont seem to be the best solution, so I'm looking for a workaround in te