From ab4b71644a26d1ab92b987b2fd30e17c25e89f85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B8rn=20Mork?= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 14:19:21 +0100 Subject: USB: storage: fix Huawei mode switching regression MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This reverts commit 200e0d99 ("USB: storage: optimize to match the Huawei USB storage devices and support new switch command" and the followup bugfix commit cd060956 ("USB: storage: properly handle the endian issues of idProduct"). The commit effectively added a large number of Huawei devices to the deprecated usb-storage mode switching logic. Many of these devices have been in use and supported by the userspace usb_modeswitch utility for years. Forcing the switching inside the kernel causes a number of regressions as a result of ignoring existing onfigurations, and also completely takes away the ability to configure mode switching per device/system/user. Known regressions caused by this: - Some of the devices support multiple modes, using different switching commands. There are existing configurations taking advantage of this. - There is a real use case for disabling mode switching and instead mounting the exposed storage device. This becomes impossible with switching logic inside the usb-storage driver. - At least on device fail as a result of the usb-storage switching command, becoming completely unswitchable. This is possibly a firmware bug, but still a regression because the device work as expected using usb_modeswitch defaults. In-kernel mode switching was deprecated years ago with the development of the more user friendly userspace alternatives. The existing list of devices in usb-storage was only kept to prevent breaking already working systems. The long term plan is to remove the list, not to add to it. Ref: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.general/28543 Cc: Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/usb/storage/initializers.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/usb/storage/initializers.h') diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/initializers.h b/drivers/usb/storage/initializers.h index 5376d4fc76f0..529327fbb06b 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/storage/initializers.h +++ b/drivers/usb/storage/initializers.h @@ -46,5 +46,5 @@ int usb_stor_euscsi_init(struct us_data *us); * flash reader */ int usb_stor_ucr61s2b_init(struct us_data *us); -/* This places the HUAWEI usb dongles in multi-port mode */ -int usb_stor_huawei_init(struct us_data *us); +/* This places the HUAWEI E220 devices in multi-port mode */ +int usb_stor_huawei_e220_init(struct us_data *us); -- cgit v1.2.1