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[Bug] Infinity60/Whitefox slow startup time in Linux

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#8,733 opened on Apr 8, 2020

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Description

I just updated qmk firmare on both my Infinity60 and Whitefox and I noticed that when I plug in the keyboard it takes 10/20 seconds to the keyboard to send key events to the OS.

Before updating I had a very old qmk version and I did not have this problem. I have another Planck keyboard and it works fine, so maybe it's something related to chibios??

I tried on macos and it's much faster, it takes 2/3 seconds to become reponsive.

System Information

  • Keyboard:

    • Infinity 60
    • Whitefox

  • Operating system: Fedora with Linux kernel: 4.9.13-101.fc24.x86_64

  • AVR GCC version: avr-gcc (Fedora 6.2.0-1.fc24) 6.2.0

  • ARM GCC version: arm-none-eabi-gcc (Fedora 6.2.0-2.fc24) 6.2.0

  • QMK Firmware version: 0.8.103

Additional Context

This is the output from dmesg:

[  715.055001] usb 1-2: new full-speed USB device number 12 using xhci_hcd
[  715.224977] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1c11, idProduct=b04d
[  715.224980] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  715.224982] usb 1-2: Product: Infinity_60%_LED/QMK
[  715.224984] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Input Club
[  715.224986] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 0
[  715.227899] input: Input Club Infinity_60%_LED/QMK as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/0003:1C11:B04D.0017/input/input33
[  715.281050] hid-generic 0003:1C11:B04D.0017: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Input Club Infinity_60%_LED/QMK] on usb-0000:00:14.0-2/input0
[  725.728390] hid-generic 0003:1C11:B04D.0018: usb_submit_urb(ctrl) failed: -1
[  725.728422] hid-generic 0003:1C11:B04D.0018: timeout initializing reports
[  725.728789] input: Input Club Infinity_60%_LED/QMK as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.1/0003:1C11:B04D.0018/input/input34
[  725.781476] hid-generic 0003:1C11:B04D.0018: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Input Club Infinity_60%_LED/QMK] on usb-0000:00:14.0-2/input1
[  735.968269] hid-generic 0003:1C11:B04D.0019: timeout initializing reports
[  735.969182] hid-generic 0003:1C11:B04D.0019: hiddev0,hidraw3: USB HID v1.11 Device [Input Club Infinity_60%_LED/QMK] on usb-0000:00:14.0-2/input2

It seems that the keyboard become responsive after the last line in dmesg.

Contributor guide

Research direction
Investigate the cause of USB report initialization timeout on Linux for Infinity60/Whitefox keyboards. Check the keyboard's USB descriptor handling and timing issues related to ChibiOS.
Tech stack
c
Domain
embedded iot
Issue type
Bug
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3
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Half day
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Active
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Clear
Prerequisites
CQMK firmware basics
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65