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From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Du\, Changbin" <changbin.du@intel.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	"gregkh\@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"rui.silva\@linaro.org" <rui.silva@linaro.org>,
	"k.opasiak\@samsung.com" <k.opasiak@samsung.com>,
	"lars\@metafoo.de" <lars@metafoo.de>,
	"linux-usb\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: f_fs: report error if excess data received
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 22:39:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xa1tinygxtl5.fsf@mina86.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1605131026560.2049-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

On Fri, May 13 2016, Alan Stern wrote:
> The point is that you don't know whether the host sent more data than
> expected.  All you know is that the host sent more data than the user
> asked the kernel for -- but maybe the user didn't ask for all the data
> that he expected.  Maybe the user wanted to retrieve the full set of
> data using two read() system calls.

I was wondering about that for a while actually.  So far, f_fs’ model
was: one read, one request.  Splitting requests would certainly be
possible, but is that what f_fs’ users would expect to happen if host
rounds the request up?

-- 
Best regards
ミハウ “𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓪86” ナザレヴイツ
«If at first you don’t succeed, give up skydiving»

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-14 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-11 10:19 [PATCH] usb: gadget: f_fs: report error if excess data received changbin.du
2016-05-11 10:59 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-05-11 12:30   ` Michal Nazarewicz
2016-05-12  4:25     ` Du, Changbin
2016-05-12  4:21   ` Du, Changbin
2016-05-12  6:52     ` Felipe Balbi
2016-05-12  7:30       ` Du, Changbin
2016-05-12  7:46         ` Felipe Balbi
2016-05-12  8:16           ` Du, Changbin
2016-05-12  9:15             ` Felipe Balbi
2016-05-12  9:22               ` Felipe Balbi
2016-05-12  9:51                 ` Du, Changbin
2016-05-12  9:39               ` Du, Changbin
2016-05-12 10:13                 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-05-12 10:14                 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-05-12 10:45                   ` Du, Changbin
2016-05-12 11:22                     ` Felipe Balbi
2016-05-13  5:52                       ` Du, Changbin
2016-05-13  6:36                         ` Felipe Balbi
2016-05-13 10:32                           ` Du, Changbin
2016-05-13 14:29                           ` Alan Stern
2016-05-14 20:39                             ` Michal Nazarewicz [this message]
2016-05-16 12:57                             ` Felipe Balbi
2016-05-16 13:08                               ` Michal Nazarewicz
2016-05-16 13:16                                 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-05-16 19:09                                   ` Michal Nazarewicz
2016-05-17  2:53                                     ` Du, Changbin
2016-05-18  9:45                                       ` Michal Nazarewicz
2016-05-18 10:15                                         ` Felipe Balbi
2016-05-18 13:39                                           ` Michal Nazarewicz
2016-05-19  2:54                                             ` Du, Changbin
2016-05-19  7:34                                               ` Michal Nazarewicz
2016-05-19  8:49                                                 ` Du, Changbin
2016-05-19  2:31                                           ` Du, Changbin
2016-05-16 16:05 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2016-05-16 16:27   ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2016-05-16 16:48     ` Michal Nazarewicz
2016-05-16 16:35   ` Krzysztof Opasiak

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