On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 11:34 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am looking at a device that spontaneously switches > > its mode. I guess that you need to actively do something > > that some Windows versions do to keep the device in its > > initial mode. > > When does the spontaneous mode switch occur? 6 seconds after device discovery. > > In that particular case I would go as far as make > > the storage driver refuse the storage interface > > of the initial mode. > > > > What do you think? > > I agree. If a storage device is going to disconnect itself at random > times, we shouldn't try to access it. Users can override this behavior > with usb-storage's "i" quirk flag if they need to. Good. Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html