Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: USB serial regression 2.6.31.1 -> 2.6.31.2 [PATCH] | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:30:06 +1100 |
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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@pc-doctor.com> > > > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> > > Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cool. Who's going to commit it ? Greg ? Or should I send it to Linus ?
Cheers, Ben
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