Genesys and IEEE 1394 (was: Re: Genesys Logic and Kernel 2.4)

From: Florian Weimer
Date: Wed Sep 22 2004 - 15:26:54 EST


* Hisaaki Shibata:

>> + /* According to the technical support people at Genesys Logic,
>> + * devices using their chips have problems transferring more
>> + * than 32 KB at a time. In practice people have found that
>> + * 64 KB works okay and that's what Windows does. But we'll
>> + * be conservative.
>> + */
>> + if (ss->pusb_dev->descriptor.idVendor == USB_VENDOR_ID_GENESYS)
>> + ss->htmplt->max_sectors = 64;
>
> + ss->htmplt.max_sectors = 64;
>
>> +

Christoph Biedl discovered that it's likely that a a similar
workaround is needed in the IEEE 1394 code:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=5128811&forum_id=5389
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