Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:16:22 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] firewire: add a parameter to force the speed of the devices. |
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On Apr 21 Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Laurent Vivier wrote: > > I was trying to use my old iPod mini firewire (first generation) with > > a new firewire card I put in my PC (VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8), > > but the iPod was not mounted and failed with the following error: > > reading config rom failed: no ack > > It appears that the configuration rom cannot be read after the > > device max speed is set to something else than SCODE_100. > > > > According to the iPod configuration ROM, it should support SCODE_400. > > > > This patch adds a a parameter (force_speed) to the firewire-core module > > to be able to set the max speed to use with the firewire devices. > > Why a module parameter? Why not automatically apply this workaround to > this specific device?
I doubt that this iPod model needs the workaround. I suspect the particular hardware combination needs one. -- Stefan Richter -=====-===== -=-- =-=-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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