firewire bug, or just drop it [was Re: Help making sense of ]
George Hartzell
hartzell at kestrel.alerce.com
Mon Aug 23 15:24:54 PDT 2004
Doug White writes:
> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, George Hartzell wrote:
> > [...]
> > I figured out how to ask fwcontrol to tell me more about the device
> > inside the enclosure, and discovered that it's a Prolific PL-3507. A
> > little googling about suggests that it's a well known PITA device, e.g.
> >
> > http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=25140&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=0&sid=0a359d410cfd87df72f2543365922421
> >
> > So, I'm left to decide whether to muck with the firmware or just chuck
> > it.....
>
> I'd give up now. :)
> [...]
[background: I've been unsuccessfully messing about with a firewire
enclosure and 5.2.1 release (and 6.0), it turns out it uses a chip
that's known to be problematic]
Are the folks that support the firewire stuff interested in supporting
spastic hardware like this?
I could file a pr for it, but I'm not sure it's a bug. I haven't
encountered quite this situation before and don't know what the Right
Thing To Do is.
I could make the hardware available if it'd help tighten up the
subsystem.
g.
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