From: Marius C Silaghi <msila...@fit.edu>

This patch is generated against the last kernel version in the github kernel 
repository.
Some older families of USB2 cameras (STC-XXXXXUSB) do not support querying only 
the first 8 bytes of their 
device descriptor and therefore fail at enumeration on USB3 HCDs, with babble 
error -75 as they send more than
the expected 8 bytes. The proposed patch extends the mechanism used for non 
USB3 HCDs in the first part of 
the same function, and  successively tries to query both the 8 byte prefix of 
the device descriptor, as well as 
the whole device descriptor (in case the old style query of the 8 byte prefix 
fails).
In fact, for the cameras I try to fix, the preferred condition is the negation 
of the one in the proposed patch,  
"if (!USE_NEW_SCHEME(retry_counter))", to try first the version successful on 
this case, but I keep the 
current order of the "if" branches to ensure clean continuation of support for 
other supported devices.

Signed-off-by: Marius C Silaghi <msila...@fit.edu>
---
--- linux/drivers/usb/core/hub.c.orig   2013-12-23 22:09:50.545093470 -0500
+++ linux/drivers/usb/core/hub.c        2013-12-23 22:29:40.521043702 -0500
@@ -4197,7 +4197,19 @@ hub_port_init (struct usb_hub *hub, stru
                                break;
                }
 
-               retval = usb_get_device_descriptor(udev, 8);
+               /*  Try first the old 8-byte query (since it may be expected
+                *  by some devices), but then give at least a chance to the
+                *  new form (retrieving the whole descriptor)!
+                *  Querying the content of the whole structure is required
+                *  for older USB2 video cameras which do not support partial
+                *  descriptor queries, like the STC-XXXUSB family.
+                *  Windows also supports them.
+                */
+               if (USE_NEW_SCHEME(retry_counter))
+                       retval = usb_get_device_descriptor(udev, 8);
+               else
+                       retval = usb_get_device_descriptor(udev,
+                                      sizeof(struct usb_device_descriptor));
                if (retval < 8) {
                        if (retval != -ENODEV)
                                dev_err(&udev->dev,

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