Re: [PATCH 1/1] usb-storage: limit devices that cannot handle 32k transfers

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:54:08AM -0600, Doug Maxey wrote:
> 
> >From f644b337771374178d5585bcedf8153f5b45f2d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Doug Maxey <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:42:42 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] usb-storage: limit devices that cannot handle 32k transfers
> 
> When a device cannot handle the smallest previously limited transfer
> size (64 blocks) without stalling, limit the device to the amount of
> packets that fit in a platform native page.
> 
> The lowest possible limit is PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, so if the device is ever
> used on a platform that has larger than 8K pages, you lose unless you
> can convince the device firmware folks to fix the issue.
> 
> Cc: Mathew Dharm <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alan Stern <[email protected]>
> Cc: Pete Zaitcev <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Doug Maxey <[email protected]>
> ---
> Greg,
> please consider this for 2.6.24.  It does fix a problem with 
> existing devices.

Which "devices"?

And do these devices work properly on older versions of Linux, and this
is a regression fix, or have they just never worked properly?

thanks,

greg k-h

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