On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 19:01, Gunther Mayer wrote: > Linux usually has a good track to include workarounds for buggy hard- & > firmware > for the benefit of it's users. Even the usb subsystem has quite some > quirkses, > which would not be necessary if vendors sold perfect and standard > conforming products.
When the workaround risks corruption we generally don't. If there is a firmware update available then it IMHO is better than the kernel not only refuses to access the device (at least for write) but that it also prints where to get the firmware update. We do this for the AMI Megaraid as one example ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
