Re: USB serial regression 2.6.31.1 -> 2.6.31.2

From: Alan Stern
Date: Sat Oct 10 2009 - 18:54:00 EST


On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

>
> > Further REQUEST SENSE commands therefore requested 96 bytes of data
> > instead of the standard 18 bytes. With LUN 0 this worked okay. But
> > with LUN 1 it didn't; the device reported a failure of the REQUEST
> > SENSE. This is what caused usb-storage to issue the device reset.
> >
> > After the reset usb-storage continued to ask for 96 bytes of sense
> > data, and LUN 1 continued to fail the commands. Hence the repeated
> > resets.
>
> Maybe a better approach would be to go back to 18 bytes when it fails,
> what do you think ?

We certainly could do that. But should we turn off the SANE_SENSE flag
at the same time?

Alan Stern

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