Re: USB storage warning in 2.6.29-rc2

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On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:31:00 -0500 (EST)
Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> You don't have to worry about this; it isn't an error.  In fact, the 
> warning is going to be removed in a few weeks, well before 2.6.29 is 
> released.
> 
> The message indicates that your device has an odd number of sectors,
> which is rather unusual for a flash drive.  I wanted to find out how
> many kinds of mass-storage devices really do have an odd number of
> sectors, and it was suggested that a WARN would permit kerneloops.org
> to gather some statistics.  But later on it turned out that we don't
> need the information after all, so there's no reason to keep that
> warning in the code.

Well it worked in that it got me to report it :-)

/D

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Dirk Hohndel
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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