Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:06:12 -0600
From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.20-rc6 SCSI error: I/O error - trouble with
 mass storage devices ?!
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To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>
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Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:12:54PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
>> Alan Stern wrote:
>>
>>> The log revealed that the phone's firmware returns garbage values in the 
>>> Residue field for some WRITEs.  This patch should take care of it.
>>>
>>> Alan Stern
>> Is it just me, or should some of these device quirk entries that keep 
>> being added be made unconditional? Adding entries for every single 
>> device that shows up with these problems seems like not a very scalable 
>> approach. These devices obviously work in Windows, can't we just emulate 
>> its behavior here?
> 
> If you can figure out a way to dynamically detect broken devices like
> this, sure, that would be great.

For at least some of these quirks, would there be any harm in applying 
them to all devices?

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