Re: Is anyone maintaining (or even using) usbtmc?

[Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Andrew Lutomirski<luto@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Greg KH<greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 05:14:56PM -0400, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
>>> Hi all-
>>>
>>> I'm trying to use usbtmc on an Aglient N9310A (The only TMC device I
>>> have), and it sort of works, but it seems to be both extremely buggy
>>> and missing a good deal of rather important functionality.  Is there
>>> anyone maintaining it?
>>
>> Yes, me.
>>
>>> If the answer is yes, I can describe the bugs (logspam, spurious
>>> errors, delayed messages, inability to read status, etc.) in greater
>>> detail.
>>
>> Please do, but also please use the latest version, in 2.6.30.3, we fixed
>> some bad problems in it recently.
>
> I am.
>
> Almost anything I do triggers this:
>
> usbtmc 3-1:1.0: Unable to read data, error -110
>
> The easiest way is to write something that wasn't a query and then try
> to read.  Of course, the read should fail, but there's no reason it
> should spam the logs.

Here's more details, in the form of an strace log:

open("/dev/usbtmc0", O_RDWR|O_EXCL)     = 3
ioctl(3, 0x5b07, 0)                     = 0  // CLEAR_OUT_HALT
ioctl(3, 0x5b06, 0)                     = 0  // CLEAR_IN_HALT
ioctl(3, 0x5b02, 0)                     = 0  // CLEAR
write(3, "*IDN?\n", 6)                  = 6
read(3, 0x2078554, 4096)                = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out)

Removing the \n makes no difference.  This happens over and over.

Then I used a different program that opened the device, read and
discarded some ETIMEDOUTs, and made a successful query (not quite sure
what did the trick), and the original program starts working again.

--Andy