From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Clemens Fruhwirth <clemens@endorphin.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, grundler@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Forcing capacity sizes for block devices
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:43:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200912201843.40169.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f83750a0912200405v77f39a7eifef024cc4cb10a20@mail.gmail.com>
On Sunday 20 December 2009 01:05:35 pm Clemens Fruhwirth wrote:
> Make the size attribute of block devices writable via sysfs. This
> allows userspace to force
> device boundaries in cases where the device driver is unable to detect
> the correct size, as
> with spec-incompliant SD card readers. Also see
> http://marc.info/?t=125555550200010&r=1&w=2
Just a wild idea but maybe the current block infrastructure for handling
ATA HPA (see commit db429e9 and e957b60 one) can be used to automatically
detect and workaround the issue?
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-20 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-20 12:05 [PATCH] Forcing capacity sizes for block devices Clemens Fruhwirth
2009-12-20 13:19 ` [PATCH] Forcing capacity sizes for block devices - (sorry, gmail ruined inlining with wordwrapping in the last mail) Clemens Fruhwirth
2009-12-20 17:43 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2009-12-21 20:04 ` [PATCH] Forcing capacity sizes for block devices Grant Grundler
2009-12-21 21:59 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-22 20:15 ` Grant Grundler
[not found] ` <2f83750a0912240503g3aa7bcbw876a164d0e350b27@mail.gmail.com>
2009-12-24 13:40 ` Clemens Fruhwirth
2010-01-25 14:49 ` Clemens Fruhwirth
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