James:
Since nobody has offered an explanation for why the sd driver makes a
write-protect check only for devices with removable media, I'm submitting
this patch (as620) to get rid of the removable-media test.
Alan Stern
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Index: usb-2.6/drivers/scsi/sd.c
===================================================================
--- usb-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ usb-2.6/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -1509,9 +1509,7 @@ static int sd_revalidate_disk(struct gen
*/
if (sdkp->media_present) {
sd_read_capacity(sdkp, disk->disk_name, buffer);
- if (sdp->removable)
- sd_read_write_protect_flag(sdkp, disk->disk_name,
- buffer);
+ sd_read_write_protect_flag(sdkp, disk->disk_name, buffer);
sd_read_cache_type(sdkp, disk->disk_name, buffer);
}
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