RE: PATCH: Disable 6 byte commands for USB, firewire, ATAPICAM

From: Nate Lawson <nate_at_root.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 07:25:11 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
> On 25-Jul-2003 Nate Lawson wrote:
> > Please test devices such as USB keys, USB cameras, Firewire hard disks,
> > and ATAPICAM cd drives to be sure they still work with this patch.
> > Especially if you've needed a quirk before, it is important to see if this
> > patch does not break your device.  I hope to get this into the tree early
> > so there is plenty of testing before 5.2.
>
> You should remove the 6 to 10 translation that is already in umass(4)
> for UFI and ATAPI devices.  I didn't do it for SCSI devices because
> the SCSI transport was supposed to work ok with 6 byte commands.  Not
> all devices properly report their transport though.

I'll be looking into that and streamlining any other translation code.  I
just removed some extraneous calls to cmd6workaround().

-Nate
Received on Wed Aug 06 2003 - 05:25:11 UTC

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