On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:30:06AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 10:03 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > usb-storage: Workaround devices with bogus sense size > > > > > > Some devices, such as Huawei E169, advertise more than the standard > > > amount of sense data, causing us to set US_FL_SANE_SENSE, assuming > > > they support it. However, they subsequently fail the request sense > > > with that size. > > > > > > This works around it generically. When a sense request fails due to > > > a device returning an error, US_FL_SANE_SENSE was set, and that sense > > > request used a larger sense size, we retry with a smaller size before > > > giving up. > > > > > > Based on an original patch by Ben Efros <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cool. Who's going to commit it ? Greg ? Or should I send it to Linus ? I will, I'll send it off tomorrow. 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
