On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 01:51:58PM +0200, Till Dörges wrote: > Am 25.08.20 um 20:45 schrieb Alan Stern: > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 08:01:57PM +0200, Till Dörges wrote: > >> Am 19.06.20 um 17:05 schrieb Alan Stern: > >> > >>> Can you build and test a kernel with the patch below, to make sure it does > >>> what you want? > >> > >> I was afraid you might say that. ;-) > >> > >> I don't have a kernel dev environment handy (that was the main reason why I was happy > >> with your offer of writing the patch). > >> > >> I'll try setting one up, but it may take a moment. > > > > It has been a couple of months. Did you make any progress on this? > > > Thanks for the reminder and sorry for the delay. > > > I just tested your patch and it works like a charm. > > > Testing was performed on: > > --- snip --- > user@box:~> lsb-release -d > Description: openSUSE Leap 15.1 > > user@box:~> uname -a > Linux box.none 4.12.14-lp151.28.59-default #1 SMP Wed Aug 5 10:58:34 UTC 2020 > (337e42e) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > --- snip --- > > > against the Kernel distributed by openSUSE: > > --- snip --- > user@box:~> rpm -q kernel-source > kernel-source-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1.noarch > --- snip --- > > > The patch applied and after loading the new uas.ko the HDDs which didn't work before > worked just fine. > > > I understand the openSUSE Leap Kernel is somewhat different from Kernel HEAD but I'd > assume that for the purpose of this test these differences are acceptable. > > > Is there anything else I can do to help? Nope, this is all set. I'll go ahead and submit the patch. Alan Stern
