[PATCH] USB-UHCI-HCD
After maturing for more than a month, I decided that it's enough... So here's the patch for the HCD-version of usb-uhci, I called it usb-uhci-hcd. For me, the usual devices work (TM). Since the internals haven't changed much, I don't expect much difference to usb-uhci in functionality and performance. There is one major improvement: I've added a (preliminary) watchdog, that regularly checks whether UHCI interrupts are coming through. If they are "missing", ie. the HC halted without saying so, the HC is "re-animated" by a real and clean restart, which is (internally) equivalent to a module-reload. This is especially for VIA-chips which get comatose quite easily by babble or other incorrect transfers. The side effect is, of course, disconnects for all connected devices, but they re-appear after a few seconds and were dead before anyway. So keyboard and mouse work again, which is IMO a _very_ useful thing :-) Another point: The watchdog (currently with moderate 8 interrupts/s) detects IRQ-problems, so the misleading "device doesn't accept new device"-message is replaced by an immediate error. More comments and the separation into multiple files (I've taken ohci-hcd as an example) should make the code more concise... A few things are still on the todo-list and will come later: - A few watchdog modifications (fewer interrupts, better diagnostics) - Support for module "tune"-parameters for breadth/depth search, debug etc. - interval support for ISO - More SMP-tests - maybe changes for reference counting when it is clear what survives :-)
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