On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 02:00:57PM -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote: > IIRC, the sysfs attribute doesn't exist until after the device is > probed, and the SCSI probing might fail (can't read partition tables, > leading to errors, catastrophic failure) if the max-sectors is too > high during probing. > > While I agree 20-25% performance gain is significant, a high > failure-rate is also significant. And, while it's been many years, do > *you* want to field all the e-mails from people who say the device > they've been using for years is suddenly dead? > > I think the best compromise is to only adjust the limit up for USB 3 > devices. That pretty much guarantees a "newer" device, which should > hopefully behave better. I agree, this seems like the "safest" thing to do, we can't break any old devices. thanks, greg k-h -- 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
