Re: HEADSUP: USB da(4) quirks disabled for 4.9 and 5.2

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:20:55AM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > If you have any of the devices listed below, please test with a recent
> > -stable or -current.  They will stop working in 4.9 and 5.2 although old
> > behavior can _temporarily_ be enabled by adding "options DA_OLD_QUIRKS" to
> > your kernel config.  If I don't hear from anyone, they'll be going away
> > permanently after the releases.
>
> The Y-E 'Flashbuster' floppy is a fairly common device.
> It is often sold with Sony Vaio notebooks. There is legacy BIOS boot
> support, but how will people use a fixit floppy once the kernel has booted?

Sure it's common.  But no one has mentioned that it really needs the
NO_SYNC_CACHE quirk.  So unless I hear otherwise, I will assume it doesn't
need the quirk and it will continue to work fine.

The problem is that a lot of these quirks were added with no documentation
and a cut/paste of both NO_6_BYTE and NO_SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE quirks even
though only one of them was needed.  Now that no USB devices should
receive a 6 byte command, that only leaves the NO_SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
quirks.  I am temporarily disabling them to flush out which ones are
REALLY needed.  They have been disabled since 2003/07/29 and 2003/08/07
for -current and -stable, respectively.  I have had 0 messages saying that
anything was broken by this.

-Nate