Fedora Core 3 Test Update: kernel-2.6.10-1.766_FC3

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

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