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
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