On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:57:46AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > In the strictest sense, there's always a possibility that any change > will crash _some_ device somewhere. In this case I believe the > probability is very low. Luben's patch does not change the commands > sent to a USB device; it only changes the kernel's interpretation of > the data sent back. Unless things are terribly badly broken, this > won't hurt. It doesn't change the _discovery_ commands sent to the device, but (I think ...) it will change the subsequent commands sent to the device; eg we'll now send it SYNCHRONISE CACHE when we wouldn't have before. I think it's low-risk too, and am in favour of seeing this patch applied. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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
