From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 10:17:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 541E337B404 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:17:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87B0A43F75 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:17:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 55381 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Jul 2003 17:17:16 -0000 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:17:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson To: "Justin T. Gibbs" In-Reply-To: <1240610000.1059498091@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> Message-ID: <20030729101619.R55346@root.org> References: <20030728212246.Q53955@root.org> <1240610000.1059498091@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: current@freebsd.org cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: USB da(4) quirks deprecated X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:17:16 -0000 On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > You may have a device (USB camera, pen drive, hard drive, ...) that begins > > to get errors like ... "Synchronize cache failed, status 0x35". > > If the Sync cache fails with a "reasonable error code", then the code > that silence these errors should be enhanced rather than have a quirk > entry added. I'm committed to doing that for devices which respond in a reasonable way (whether error or success). > Just to reitterate, the quirks are there for situations that cannot > be handled in a more programatic way (e.g. a device that dies when > you send it a certain command). Please don't blindly re-enable quirks > to silence junk that winds up in syslog. I won't be re-enabling quirks except for devices which hang. -Nate