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? Regards, Clemens -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
