Re: PATCH: ehci-q.c

Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Steve Calfee wrote:

> Linux on the other hand enforces the spec - even if its hardware can
> handle the buggy device.

> This chunk of code must be what winxp is using. Changing this and the
> other HCD to do a similar thing would allow Linux to use broken (and
> non-broken) devices. Allowing Linux to run outside the spec will
> probably be a religious war.

In fact there already is a config option to allow out-of-spec settings
(it was inspired by low-speed devices using bulk endpoints).  This
misfeature could be added to that option.

Alan Stern


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