Hi Alan, ... On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:39:44PM -0800, Alan Stern wrote: > 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. I'd love to do that. So far, I haven't been able to find anyone who will support this drive so I can update the firmware. AFAIK, the firmware we have is the very latest version. I don't think there's anything we can do in linux kernel to completely eliminate the possibility that this bug will hit us -- but we may be able to help make this already very rare problem slightly more rare... Arthur -- 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
