[sane-devel] libusb - problems with open/close of device in backend?

[stef]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:52:27PM -0400, m. allan noah wrote:
> steven, i see this exact problem with certain fujitsu scanners. the 
> difficulty is that USB uses a 0/1 toggling bit during the data transmit 
> phase. when libusb closes the device, the device should reset the toggle 
> back to 0, the kernel does. subsequent transmissions should start with 
> toggle set to 0, but if device thinks it should be 1, then device ignores 
> packets. windows never closes the device (the driver loads at bootup) so 
> the fujitsu engineers had no idea what i was talking about (though i note 
> that later usb2.0 fujitsu scanners do not have this problem)
> 
> you have three options that i see:
> 
> 1. count the number of data packets you 
> are sending to scanner, and always send an even number. remember that just 
> cause you sent or read 16 k of data, does not matter, it was busted up by 
> lower layers. you need this larger number of smaller packets.
> 
> 2. get kernel/libusb to keep current toggle instead of trashing it.
> 
> 3. call usb_reset(device) as the very last step before you exit. this will 
> cause the device to re-enumerate, and reset all of its internal data. 
> while ugly, this works for me everytime. there are other functions like 
> usb_clearhalt and usb_resetep, but those dont seem to fix my problem.
> 
> my advice? write a little prog that uses libusb directly, and try to do 
> simple things outside the confines of sane.
> 
> allan
> 

	Hello,

	this is really interesting.  I had an intermittent hangup with the
genesys backend, depending of tha amount of scan data. I just couldn't 
figured out why. Now, with your explanation, it does make sense. 
Dependending on the number of bulk reads, the toggle wasn't set like it 
should. So I did like you suggest: call usb_reset(device) before closing the
device in sane_close(). That got rid of the hang (at least on HP2300C, need
to double check for MD6471).
	Now my question is : would it be OK to do it in a backend ? Is there
any drawback ?

Regards,
	Stef