On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:33:27AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > > Hmmm... Maybe but we've been sending GET_EVENT without such provision > > > for very long time now. I feel reluctant to change something which > > > seems to work in this area even if that something is technically > > > wrong. It's not like cheap USB devices tend to be technically correct > > > anyway. > > > > All right, then how do you feel about this patch? It makes minimal > > changes, to avoid the inefficiency of sending repeated commands that > > can never work. > > Hmmm... while I don't object to the patch per-se, I'm not sure what > benefit it brings. Do you have any specific case where this is > necessary / beneficial? What are we gaining by not issuing GET_EVENT? We save a little bit of time. It's not necessary; it's just a small optimization. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html