Re: kern/23875 (TrekStor MusicStick requires umass quirks)

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/23875; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>
Cc: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>, 
gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
        kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
        gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, dholland%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/23875 (TrekStor MusicStick requires umass quirks)
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:55:14 +0000

 On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 08:01:03AM +0200, Michael van Elst wrote:
  > > Well, we want the thing to work, right? Is there a reasonable alternative?
  > 
  > There are two approaches:
  > 
  > - Find a way to quickly recover from USB errors that actually works with
  >   such devices.
  > 
  > - Find a way to detect devices that don't support a command without
  >   trying the command itself and that still survive the probe method.
  > 
  > I don't know either.
 
 Neither of those sounds all that promising in the short term...
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost