On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Freitag, 18. Dezember 2009 21:13:03 schrieb Alan Stern: > > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > > > 2) All this patch does is cover up a pretty serious bug, without completely > > > > covering it up. The end-user still winds up with an unreliable storage > > > > device. With your patch, it may simply be a little less unreliable. > > > > > > It may be possible to do this with an RT thread. Maybe something like > > > this untested version? > > > > If you want to make the usb-storage thread RT, why not do so from the > > beginning? However it's far from clear that this would be a good thing > > to do. > > I am doing this as late as possible, because I am also not sure that > it is a good idea. But do you have an alternative? Don't do it at all. Rely on users getting up-to-date firmware for the drive that fixes its internal bug. Alan Stern -- 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
