Re: [FFADO-devel] [PATCH 18/39] firewire-lib: Add a fallback at RCODE_CANCELLED

[Stefan R. <st...@s5...>]

I wrote:
>>>>> Since FFADO applies 200 ms or more as FCP
>>>>> transaction timeout, shouldn't firewire-lib's fcp.c increase
>>>>> FCP_TIMEOUT_MS from 125 to 200 or more as well?

FFADO took over the 200 ms timeout from libavc1394, where it was
introduced by this changeset:
http://sourceforge.net/p/libavc1394/code/24/

Commit [r24]
    increase timeout
Authored by: ddennedy 2002-10-01

--- a/trunk/libavc1394/libavc1394/avc1394_internal.h
+++ b/trunk/libavc1394/libavc1394/avc1394_internal.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #define MAX_RESPONSE_SIZE 512
 #define AVC1394_RETRY 2
 #define AVC1394_SLEEP 10000
-#define AVC1394_POLL_TIMEOUT 100
+#define AVC1394_POLL_TIMEOUT 200
 /* #define DEBUG */
 
 void htonl_block(quadlet_t *buf, int len);

So this was certainly not done particularly for audio devices.
And interestingly, the immediate parent commit r23 on 2002-09-28 corrected
the timeout from 50 ms to 100 ms.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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