On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Oliver Neukum wrote: > On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 13:25 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > > Hi Hannes, > > > > > > you objected to this patch saying there's a possibilty that > > > HS devices may also need this feature, which would require > > > a quirk. Does this mean that the patch is acceptable only > > > with an additional predefined quirk, or do you insist that all > > > devices be handled with quirks? > > > > Indeed, we already know of one or two high-speed devices that suffer > > from this bug: > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=133586313307042&w=2 > > > > This may influence your decision. I'm not certain whether it is > > important enough to merit a new quirk flag, but people experiencing the > > problem may have some strong opinions. > > What is the alternative? There are three possibilities: nothing, your proposed patch, and a new quirk flag. The flag is safest, but also the hardest to maintain. > I think we can be sure that no drive enclosure will crash > with READ_CAPACITY_16. I wouldn't count on it, but I don't know of any examples. > I am not sure about card readers. Or flash drives. > Does anybody know what Windows does? Not me. It probably varies with different versions of Windows. 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
