Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:27:07 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: [usb-storage] BUG: SCSI: usb storage SDHC card doesn't work in 2.6.27-rc1 |
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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
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