From: Ahmed S. Darwish Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 05:24:06 +0000 (+0200) Subject: can: kvaser_usb: Retry the first bulk transfer on -ETIMEDOUT X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=14c10c2a1dd8eb8e00b750b521753260befa2789;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git can: kvaser_usb: Retry the first bulk transfer on -ETIMEDOUT On some x86 laptops, plugging a Kvaser device again after an unplug makes the firmware always ignore the very first command. For such a case, provide some room for retries instead of completely exiting the driver init code. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish Cc: linux-stable Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde --- diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c b/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c index f0c62075df0a..55407b9663a6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c @@ -1585,7 +1585,7 @@ static int kvaser_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf, { struct kvaser_usb *dev; int err = -ENOMEM; - int i; + int i, retry = 3; dev = devm_kzalloc(&intf->dev, sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL); if (!dev) @@ -1603,7 +1603,15 @@ static int kvaser_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf, usb_set_intfdata(intf, dev); - err = kvaser_usb_get_software_info(dev); + /* On some x86 laptops, plugging a Kvaser device again after + * an unplug makes the firmware always ignore the very first + * command. For such a case, provide some room for retries + * instead of completely exiting the driver. + */ + do { + err = kvaser_usb_get_software_info(dev); + } while (--retry && err == -ETIMEDOUT); + if (err) { dev_err(&intf->dev, "Cannot get software infos, error %d\n", err);