Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:03:12 +0200 | From | Clemens Ladisch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] firewire: add a parameter to force the speed of the devices. |
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Laurent Vivier wrote: > I was trying to use my old iPod mini firewire (first generation) with > a new firewire card I put in my PC (VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8), > but the iPod was not mounted and failed with the following error: > reading config rom failed: no ack > It appears that the configuration rom cannot be read after the > device max speed is set to something else than SCODE_100. > > According to the iPod configuration ROM, it should support SCODE_400. > > This patch adds a a parameter (force_speed) to the firewire-core module > to be able to set the max speed to use with the firewire devices.
Why a module parameter? Why not automatically apply this workaround to this specific device?
Regards, Clemens
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