Fedora Core 3 Test Update: kernel-2.6.10-1.766_FC3
Kyrre Ness Sjobak
kyrre at solution-forge.net
Sat Feb 12 22:35:07 UTC 2005
lør, 12.02.2005 kl. 21.45 skrev Dave Jones:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 08:48:33PM +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> >
> > > * Wed Feb 9 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> > > - Backport some exec-shield fixes from devel/ branch.
> > > - Scan all SCSI LUNs by default.
> > > Theoretically, some devices may hang when being probed, though
> > > there should be few enough of these that we can blacklist them
> > > instead of having to whitelist every other device on the planet.
> > >
> >
> > Wow! But why can't the kernel just do a "hey! this is a USB device!
> > Prob'em! and Oh. *real*SCSI. Carefull..."?
>
> Had been discussed at one point on linux-scsi list, but no-one got
> around to trying to do anything about it afaik.
>
> > > * Tue Feb 8 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> > > - Use both old-style and new-style for USB initialisation.
> > More usb stuff?
>
> 2.6.10 changed the style that probing gets done.
> new-style makes us do things the way Windows XP does it.
> Unfortunatly, some devices don't work it seems (or we still
> aren't getting something quite right). This change makes
> us try the 2.6.10 method, and if that fails, fall back to
> trying the 2.6.9 and earlier method.
>
Sorry, i don't know Windows intimatly enough to know how it probes
USB... But if it works better, its great!
> I'm hoping it'll fix up some of the stranger USB problems in bugzilla.
Thats great :)
>
> Dave
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