3 This is the documentation of (hopefully) all possible error codes (and
4 their interpretation) that can be returned from usbcore.
6 Some of them are returned by the Host Controller Drivers (HCDs), which
7 device drivers only see through usbcore. As a rule, all the HCDs should
8 behave the same except for transfer speed dependent behaviors and the
9 way certain faults are reported.
12 **************************************************************************
13 * Error codes returned by usb_submit_urb *
14 **************************************************************************
18 0 URB submission went fine
20 -ENOMEM no memory for allocation of internal structures
24 -EBUSY The URB is already active.
26 -ENODEV specified USB-device or bus doesn't exist
28 -ENOENT specified interface or endpoint does not exist or
31 -ENXIO host controller driver does not support queuing of this type
32 of urb. (treat as a host controller bug.)
34 -EINVAL a) Invalid transfer type specified (or not supported)
35 b) Invalid or unsupported periodic transfer interval
36 c) ISO: attempted to change transfer interval
37 d) ISO: number_of_packets is < 0
38 e) various other cases
40 -EXDEV ISO: URB_ISO_ASAP wasn't specified and all the frames
41 the URB would be scheduled in have already expired.
43 -EFBIG Host controller driver can't schedule that many ISO frames.
45 -EPIPE The pipe type specified in the URB doesn't match the
46 endpoint's actual type.
48 -EMSGSIZE (a) endpoint maxpacket size is zero; it is not usable
49 in the current interface altsetting.
50 (b) ISO packet is larger than the endpoint maxpacket.
51 (c) requested data transfer length is invalid: negative
52 or too large for the host controller.
54 -ENOSPC This request would overcommit the usb bandwidth reserved
55 for periodic transfers (interrupt, isochronous).
57 -ESHUTDOWN The device or host controller has been disabled due to some
58 problem that could not be worked around.
60 -EPERM Submission failed because urb->reject was set.
62 -EHOSTUNREACH URB was rejected because the device is suspended.
64 -ENOEXEC A control URB doesn't contain a Setup packet.
67 **************************************************************************
68 * Error codes returned by in urb->status *
69 * or in iso_frame_desc[n].status (for ISO) *
70 **************************************************************************
72 USB device drivers may only test urb status values in completion handlers.
73 This is because otherwise there would be a race between HCDs updating
74 these values on one CPU, and device drivers testing them on another CPU.
76 A transfer's actual_length may be positive even when an error has been
77 reported. That's because transfers often involve several packets, so that
78 one or more packets could finish before an error stops further endpoint I/O.
80 For isochronous URBs, the urb status value is non-zero only if the URB is
81 unlinked, the device is removed, the host controller is disabled, or the total
82 transferred length is less than the requested length and the URB_SHORT_NOT_OK
83 flag is set. Completion handlers for isochronous URBs should only see
84 urb->status set to zero, -ENOENT, -ECONNRESET, -ESHUTDOWN, or -EREMOTEIO.
85 Individual frame descriptor status fields may report more status codes.
88 0 Transfer completed successfully
90 -ENOENT URB was synchronously unlinked by usb_unlink_urb
92 -EINPROGRESS URB still pending, no results yet
93 (That is, if drivers see this it's a bug.)
95 -EPROTO (*, **) a) bitstuff error
96 b) no response packet received within the
97 prescribed bus turn-around time
100 -EILSEQ (*, **) a) CRC mismatch
101 b) no response packet received within the
102 prescribed bus turn-around time
105 Note that often the controller hardware does not
106 distinguish among cases a), b), and c), so a
107 driver cannot tell whether there was a protocol
108 error, a failure to respond (often caused by
109 device disconnect), or some other fault.
111 -ETIME (**) No response packet received within the prescribed
112 bus turn-around time. This error may instead be
113 reported as -EPROTO or -EILSEQ.
115 -ETIMEDOUT Synchronous USB message functions use this code
116 to indicate timeout expired before the transfer
117 completed, and no other error was reported by HC.
119 -EPIPE (**) Endpoint stalled. For non-control endpoints,
120 reset this status with usb_clear_halt().
122 -ECOMM During an IN transfer, the host controller
123 received data from an endpoint faster than it
124 could be written to system memory
126 -ENOSR During an OUT transfer, the host controller
127 could not retrieve data from system memory fast
128 enough to keep up with the USB data rate
130 -EOVERFLOW (*) The amount of data returned by the endpoint was
131 greater than either the max packet size of the
132 endpoint or the remaining buffer size. "Babble".
134 -EREMOTEIO The data read from the endpoint did not fill the
135 specified buffer, and URB_SHORT_NOT_OK was set in
138 -ENODEV Device was removed. Often preceded by a burst of
139 other errors, since the hub driver doesn't detect
140 device removal events immediately.
142 -EXDEV ISO transfer only partially completed
143 (only set in iso_frame_desc[n].status, not urb->status)
145 -EINVAL ISO madness, if this happens: Log off and go home
147 -ECONNRESET URB was asynchronously unlinked by usb_unlink_urb
149 -ESHUTDOWN The device or host controller has been disabled due
150 to some problem that could not be worked around,
151 such as a physical disconnect.
154 (*) Error codes like -EPROTO, -EILSEQ and -EOVERFLOW normally indicate
155 hardware problems such as bad devices (including firmware) or cables.
157 (**) This is also one of several codes that different kinds of host
158 controller use to indicate a transfer has failed because of device
159 disconnect. In the interval before the hub driver starts disconnect
160 processing, devices may receive such fault reports for every request.
164 **************************************************************************
165 * Error codes returned by usbcore-functions *
166 * (expect also other submit and transfer status codes) *
167 **************************************************************************
170 -EINVAL error during registering new driver
172 usb_get_*/usb_set_*():
175 -ETIMEDOUT Timeout expired before the transfer completed.