On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 10:17 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Matthew Dharm wrote: > > > > > Actually, I'm seriously starting to think that US_FL_IGNORE_RESIDUE should > > > just become a sysfs parameter which defaults to the 'ignore' state... > > > > We have to be careful; there definitely are devices out there which > > need to use the Residue. > > This is sort of a tradeoff ... there was one complaint I saw where a > device turned read only without the fix idenitifed in this report. > Devices broken by the fix are definitely crawling out of the woodwork > now. Either this patch needs to be reverted or a new fix needs to be > applied soon (and to stable). I would expect this patch: http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=121734710306509&w=2 to take care of most of the problems. But it hasn't yet been merged, and it can't go into -stable until then. Alan Stern -- 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
