Am Montag, den 10.07.2017, 16:26 -0400 schrieb Alan Stern: > On Mon, 10 Jul 2017, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > > The old storage driver unconditionally limits inquiries to 36 bytes. UAS does not > > > > have that limit. That seems to be a bit optimistic. Could you test the attached patch? > > > > > > If there's no particular benefit to 96-byte inquiries, it would be > > > > Interesting. Why do we make them at all? > > I don't know. Presumably they do provide useful information for some > devices, but I'm not aware of what that information is -- you'd have to > ask the SCSI people. I was told to respect the <censored> standards. The extended data is vendor specific. There is no way to know how important it is. > What I really had in mind was whether a 96-byte inquiry provides any > benefit for USB mass-storage devices. Again, I don't know the answer. We need to look at UAS to SCSI bridges. And they have a point. We cannot punish everybody who does it right, just because there is one known broken drive. So I would leave the quirk in. 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
