linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH revised] firewire: sbp2: add workarounds for 2nd and 3rd generation iPods

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Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:20:48 -0500
From:	Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Kristian Høgsberg <krh@...planet.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH revised] firewire: sbp2: add workarounds for 2nd and 3rd generation iPods

On Wednesday 28 January 2009 18:11:59 Stefan Richter wrote:
> According to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294391
>   - 3rd generation iPods need the "fix capacity" workaround after all
>     (apparently they crash after the last sector was accessed),
>   - 2nd generation iPods need the "128 kB maximum request size"
>     workaround.
>
> Alas both iPod generations feature the same model ID in the config ROM,
> hence we can only define a shared quirks list entry for them.  Luckily
> the fix capacity workaround did not show a negative effect in Jarod's
> tests with 2nd gen. iPod.
>
> A side note:  Apple computers in target mode (or at least an x86 Mac
> mini) don't have firmware_version and model_id, hence none of the iPod
> quirks list entries is active for them.
>
> Tested-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>

Looks golden to me, and I've wedged this into the latest Fedora rawhide
kernels. Go 'head and add this too:

Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com>

Thanks much!

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod@...hat.com

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