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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>,
	linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] firewire: add a parameter to force the speed of the devices.
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:16:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150421161622.69637059@kant> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <553658A0.8060409@ladisch.de>

On Apr 21 Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Laurent Vivier wrote:
> > I was trying to use my old iPod mini firewire (first generation) with
> > a new firewire card I put in my PC (VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8),
> > but the iPod was not mounted and failed with the following error:
> >     reading config rom failed: no ack
> > It appears that the configuration rom cannot be read after the
> > device max speed is set to something else than SCODE_100.
> >
> > According to the iPod configuration ROM, it should support SCODE_400.
> >
> > This patch adds a a parameter (force_speed) to the firewire-core module
> > to be able to set the max speed to use with the firewire devices.
> 
> Why a module parameter?  Why not automatically apply this workaround to
> this specific device?

I doubt that this iPod model needs the workaround.  I suspect the
particular hardware combination needs one.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-21 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-21  0:36 [PATCH 0/2] Some firewire minor patches Laurent Vivier
2015-04-21  0:36 ` [PATCH 1/2] firewire: firewire is a big-endian bus Laurent Vivier
2015-04-21  1:04   ` Joe Perches
2015-04-21 14:13     ` Stefan Richter
2015-04-21 13:13   ` Stefan Richter
2015-04-21 16:04     ` Laurent Vivier
2015-04-21  0:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] firewire: add a parameter to force the speed of the devices Laurent Vivier
2015-04-21 14:03   ` Clemens Ladisch
2015-04-21 14:16     ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2015-04-21 14:33   ` Stefan Richter
2015-04-21 16:55     ` Laurent Vivier

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