From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
To: Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] Increase USBFS Bulk Transfer size
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:01:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E970B40.8070808@genband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+O4pC+kRXvGYpnHD7bocuL_t+YWLbChKg8kVAtxmMkd+60+CA@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/13/2011 09:19 AM, Markus Rechberger wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Alan Stern<stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> This is very interesting. There are only two things that could be
>> happening: Either the device sends different data during the two tests,
>> or there's a bug in the kernel.
> Before that I insist that this patch will go into the kernel (I know
> that sounds ridiculous but so far I did everything
> you requested me to do), I clearly pointed out that we even have hardware
> specs which can influence the transfer buffer. The patch does not hurt
> and makes the device work.
That makes no sense. If there's a bug in the hardware we likely don't
want to make global changes to work around it--a more targeted fix may
be more appropriate.
If there is a bug in the kernel, why would we want a bandaid patch that
just happens to make it work rather than a true fix?
Chris
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Chris Friesen
Software Developer
GENBAND
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www.genband.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-13 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-12 12:36 [Patch] Increase USBFS Bulk Transfer size Markus Rechberger
2011-10-12 12:46 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-12 13:48 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2011-10-12 14:17 ` Greg KH
2011-10-12 16:59 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-12 20:33 ` Greg KH
2011-10-12 21:48 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-12 22:09 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-13 4:03 ` Manu Abraham
2011-10-13 4:59 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-13 5:46 ` Manu Abraham
2011-10-13 8:37 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-13 9:29 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-16 9:22 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2011-10-13 9:34 ` Manu Abraham
2011-10-13 9:39 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-13 14:58 ` Alan Stern
2011-10-13 15:19 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-13 16:01 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2011-10-13 16:12 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-13 16:25 ` Chris Friesen
2011-10-13 18:27 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-13 20:07 ` Alan Stern
2011-10-13 20:17 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-13 18:21 ` Alan Stern
2011-10-13 19:05 ` Alan Cox
2011-10-14 19:21 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2011-10-14 20:19 ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 22:45 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2011-10-15 11:45 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-15 17:47 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-10-15 19:08 ` Alan Stern
2011-10-15 19:04 ` Alan Stern
2011-10-16 9:10 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2011-10-16 14:18 ` Alan Stern
2011-10-17 18:11 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2011-10-17 18:22 ` Alan Stern
[not found] ` <CAAMvbhFNTQeuJBgsDB9Y5ODc_b2O0X=oP_3uwRpWUREFS9qufA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-10-14 2:47 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-14 3:42 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-14 3:48 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-14 5:47 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-10-14 6:23 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-14 8:51 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2011-10-14 15:38 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-14 14:05 ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 14:33 ` Greg KH
2011-11-07 18:52 ` Sarah Sharp
2011-11-07 19:12 ` Alan Stern
2011-11-07 20:18 ` Sarah Sharp
2011-11-07 20:37 ` Brink, Peter
2011-11-07 20:53 ` Alan Stern
2011-11-07 21:49 ` Greg KH
2011-11-07 23:07 ` Sarah Sharp
2011-11-08 1:44 ` Alan Stern
2011-11-07 19:16 ` Tim Vlaar
2011-11-07 19:55 ` Alan Stern
2011-11-07 20:13 ` Tim Vlaar
2011-10-17 18:38 ` Alan Stern
2011-10-17 19:07 ` Markus Rechberger
2011-10-12 18:00 ` Mihai Moldovan
2011-10-12 20:36 ` Greg KH
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