Bug 140113

Summary:	apcupsd problems: usb robustness issue
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Manfred Schwarb <manfred99>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	E-mail List <kernel-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Manfred Schwarb 2005-12-19 08:41:07 UTC

Some usb apc devices have firmware issues, sending shorter data stream than
advertised. 
Symptoms are that apcupsd reports insane voltages of e.g. 33000 volts.

This wrong advertising is poorly handled by the kernel, as it reports
random data to userspace.

Problem description and a one line fix for hid-core.c:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330487

This is a regression, as e.g. 2.4.* kernels did not show this issue.

Please fix this in the next suse 10.0 update, as it seems save and there may
be other devices being affected in a more subtle and non-harmless way.

Comment 1 Vojtech Pavlik 2005-12-19 10:53:15 UTC

This fix has been accepted upstream (mainline linux kernel). As such it'll make
it into our kernel eventually, too. As this only affects buggy devices - only APC
UPSes so far, and only some of those, and I believe that current UPS daemons
access them through libusb anyway (avoiding the HID parser in the kernel), I think
there isn't much reason to add that patch into our kernel immediately, and that
waiting for the inclusion of the next mainline release is justified.

Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:34:25 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 3 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:36:31 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 4 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:41:44 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 5 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:53:11 UTC

Closing old LATER+REMIND bugs as WONTFIX - if you still plan to work on it, feel free to reopen and set to ASSIGNED.

In case the report saw repeated reopen comments, it's due to bugzilla timing out on the huge request ;(