Irritating quirkyness: we have a bunch of videocams. To use, we use gspca.
Usually, on an upgrade, I just go into the gspca directory (which appears,
from their website, to have not been updated since '07), make clean, make,
make install.
Having gone up to 5.5, did the same. What's happening now is that it
works, delivers the mpgs... but dumps errors in the logs:
<snip>
kernel: /usr/local/src/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:
[spca50x_move_data:1611] ISOC data error: [0] len=0, status=-18
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Looking at the code, I see
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static int
spca50x_move_data(struct usb_spca50x *spca50x, struct urb *urb)
{
unsigned char *cdata; //Pointer to buffer where we do store next
packet
unsigned char *pData; //Pointer to buffer where we do store next
packet
int i;
for (i = 0; i < urb->number_of_packets; i++) {
int datalength = urb->iso_frame_desc[i].actual_length;
int st = urb->iso_frame_desc[i].status;
unsigned long ms_times_now;
unsigned long ms_times_before;
struct spca50x_frame *frame; //Pointer to frame data
int sequenceNumber;
int sof;
int iPix; //Offset of pixel data in the ISO packet
if (st) {
PDEBUG(0, "ISOC data error: [%d] len=%d, status=%d
\n",
i, datalength, st);
continue;
}
cdata = ((unsigned char *) urb->transfer_buffer) +
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so the first number is the packet #, which I see 0 through 3 or 5 in my
logs. The error, which is the status, *if* errno.h has any relation, says
that it's an EXDEV, which suggests that it's trying to hard link across
devices, which AFAIK it's not: the home directory for the user the device
runs is is automounted, and it gets created there.
Anyone have any clues why, all of a sudden, the first few packets are
showing a status code? Could it be a timing issue?
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