Greg,

  My apologies for dragging this back to life after this long.  I was
  prepared to live with the specific kernel patches.  However the
  current code appears to be heading to more than 1 system, and there
  is some concern that hacks we put will not suffice, as it may break
  other systems.

  The only access I have to hardware is the JS20 with the ship level
  hardware.  I don't have any history (or access at this point) with
  the other systems.

from the keyboard of Greg KH:
>On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Doug Maxey wrote:
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>>   Did the complete dump of /proc/bus/usb that illustrates the device
>>   tree that is giving me fits ever make it to this list?  I can resend
>>   if needed.
>>
>>   It seems that we have another device, in addition to the TEAC floppy
>>   that has had an unusual_dev entry, this time for the ISC-200.  This
>>   device also appears to be somewhat different from the device matched
>>   by the original code.
>>
>>   Did I ever hear a design choice on how to at least workaround this
>>   issue?
>
>As these devices are showing up to the OS as the same exact device, how
>do you think this can be worked around?

  At this point the choice seems to be to ifdef the entries in the
  unusual_devs entry.  I am aware this is not the optimal solution,
  but don't have a better one yet.

>
>>   My current thought is to have a documented config variable that
>>   enables the code to match the devices that are being shipped by IBM
>>   on the particular platform.  Is this a reasonable solution?
>
>What platform are these devices going to be shipped for?

  These will be on the pSeries JS20, and probably the new xSeries
  HS20.  All the data that I have at the moment indicates to me the
  older hardware that works with the current driver was shipped prior
  to the current hardware, and thanks to the vendors, does not show a
  delta.

>
>thanks,
>
>greg k-h
>

  I am open to suggestions.

++doug




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