On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 05:39:12PM -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote: > In theory, this is the fix we need to make Genesys Logic devices work. > This patch started life as as343, which was created based on some > information which a user finally coaxed out of Genesys Logic. Limited > end-user testing gives good results. > > As we expected, it's a bug in their device. This is really a workaround > for what is almost certainly a timing problem. Apparently, the 'popular' > OSes don't push the device as hard as Linux does. > > Although it is likely that this workaround is not needed for all Genesys > devices, Genesys was unable/unwilling to provide us with the explicit list > of VID/PIDs which required this -- thus we apply it to all Genesys devices. > > We have lots of good reports with max_sectors set to 128 with these > devices, but the official recommendation is to set that to 64. End-users > can experiment with higher values (for higher performance) via the runtime > sysfs interface to that parameter. > > I would like to give special thanks to the users who hounded Genesys into > giving up this information, and to Alan Stern for not giving up on this > vendor long after I had. > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Greg, please apply.
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