Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:44:24 -0800 | From | Matthew Dharm <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: scsi_scan.c: emulate windows behavior |
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I'm hard pressed to come up with a reason that changing the SCSI probing would affect SANE...
If you've found a merge of 255 back into the kernel, then that means that, for a while, my 36 patch _was_ in place. Was that (overfix) the only reason it was reverted to 255 after a while?
Matt
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 11:26:27PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > This patch doesn't prevent another application from getting more INQUIRY > > bytes. What it does change is how much data the SCSI scanning loop looks > > for. That data is requested, and then thrown away. It's not kept around > > for anything. > > > > If it were kept, I'd agree with you. But it's not. Some useful data is > > copied out of the INQUIRY result, and then the buffer is overwritten by the > > next probing request. > > Ok I need to double check that. My merge of the 255 has a note saying for > fixing sane, but that doesnt mean someone didnt overfix the matter > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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