On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 12:56 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 11:27:29AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > This patch sets the last_sector_bug flag to 1 for all USB disks. This is > > needed to makes the cardreader on various HP multifunction printers work. > > > > Since the performance impact is negible we set this flag for all USB disks > > to avoid an unusual_devs.h nightmare. > > Oh great, now my "working just fine" USB devices, which happen to have > data in the last sector, suddenly stop working. > > That's not acceptable :( I don't see how this will happen, might you not be confusing this change (which allows access to the last sector, just insists that it be accessed by a single sector read) with US_FL_FIX_CAPACITY which is for devices that report having one more sectors than they actually have and therefore adjusts the access limits down by one? James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
