Thread (27 messages) 27 messages, 5 authors, 2021-03-18

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] usb-storage: Add quirk to defeat Kindle's automatic unload

From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Date: 2021-03-18 15:08:17

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 02:50:13PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
Dnia Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 03:06:54PM -0400, Alan Stern napisał(a):
quoted
Matthias reports that the Amazon Kindle automatically removes its
emulated media if it doesn't receive another SCSI command within about
one second after a SYNCHRONIZE CACHE.  It does so even when the host
has sent a PREVENT MEDIUM REMOVAL command.  The reason for this
behavior isn't clear, although it's not hard to make some guesses.
  Could Kindle be fixed not to required such workaround? Is there a way
to open a bug with Amazon?
You really should be asking people who work for Amazon.  I suspect that 
nobody who regularly reads this mailing list knows the answer.

(If you look through the MAINTAINERS file, you'll find there are a few 
kernel developers who do work for Amazon, or at least, have @amazon.com 
email addresses.  Try asking some of them.)

But even if the Kindle firmware gets changed (which I doubt will 
happen), we would still want to support all the old devices that aren't 
running the updated firmware.

Alan Stern
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