Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] usb: storage: scsiglue: further describe our 240 sector limit

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On Wed, 4 Nov 2015, Felipe Balbi wrote:

> Just so we have some sort of documentation as to why
> we limit our Mass Storage transfers to 240 sectors,
> let's update the comment to make clearer that
> devices were found that would choke with larger
> transfers.
> 
> While at that, also make sure to clarify that other
> operating systems have similar, albeit different,
> limits on mass storage transfers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx>

> +	 * Tests show that other operating have similar limits with Microsoft
> +	 * Windows™ 7 limitting transfers to 128 sectors for both USB2 and USB3
> +	 * and Apple Mac OS X™ 10.11 limitting transfers to 256 sectors for USB2
> +	 * and 2048 for USB3 devices.

Do we try to avoid non-ASCII characters in comments, or are they 
accepted?  Documentation/CodingStyle doesn't say anything about it.

Alan Stern

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