On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, David Brownell wrote:

> The only thing that sticks in my memory is that some devices
> had bugs that prevented the "read all bytes at once" sort
> of strategy from working properly.

Did those devices work okay with Windows?

> Probably the most compatible approach would be to keep
> one strategy as a fallback.  I know that until I modified
> "lsusb" to know about both strategies, there were devices
> that wouldn't deliver strings to it.

Do you remember what the failure modes were, or can you find out?  
Adopting a fallback strategy shouldn't be hard, assuming the device
doesn't conk out completely after the first failure.

Alan Stern



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