- a stable libusb has not been released since May 2010 (exactly one year ago)
- bugs are still open even if they have patches attached in the bug report
Impacts on libccid
The bug [PATCH] Fix a race condition in io.c libusb_handle_events_timeout() (also known as ticket #56) has a great impact on users of my CCID driver by blocking the USB transfer for 60 seconds in some cases.
It looks like that bug #56 happens more often on recent Linux kernels, like the Linux kernel provided with Ubuntu 11.04. So it is now more-or-less urgent to fix the problem in libusb.
The bug has been reported since 8 months. A fix is available since April 2010 but is not yet applied in upstream libusb git repository. So I fixed it in my libusb repository on github to not forget it and because I needed a fixed version for myself.
libusb git snapshot x2
I already provide a git snapshot of the upstream (official) repository in the file libusb-1.0.8-git.tar.bz2 from http://ludovic.rousseau.free.fr/softwares/pcsc-lite/.
I now also provide a git snapshot of my own github version with ticket #56 fixed in the file libusb-1.0.8-github.tar.bz2.
Conclusion
So before reporting a bug in libccid first try a newer version of libusb. If the bug is at the communication level it may already be solved in the upstream libusb snapshot version or my patched version.
