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Date:      Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:17:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
Cc:        scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: USB da(4) quirks deprecated
Message-ID:  <20030729101619.R55346@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <1240610000.1059498091@aslan.btc.adaptec.com>
References:  <20030728212246.Q53955@root.org> <1240610000.1059498091@aslan.btc.adaptec.com>

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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



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