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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	Smartmontools Mailing List
	<smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [smartmontools-support] SMART to USB/sata dock in 2.6.27-rc5 doesn't work
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:46:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49031537.4020807@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <490219F7.7030908@free.fr>

matthieu castet wrote:
..
> I wonder with the patch doesn't make smartctl work without permisive. 
> May be your usb id wasn't in the patch.
..

Heh.. I didn't even look at the patch itself.
But if it is relying upon a whitelist to work,
then it's broken by design.

Most new USB drives will be supporting SAT,
and requiring a kernel patch/update (or some other
whitelist in userspace) is a silly way to support them.

Cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-25 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-09 21:56 SMART to USB/sata dock in 2.6.27-rc5 doesn't work David Greaves
2008-10-10  8:09 ` SMART to USB/sata dock in 2.6.27-rc5 doesn't work : hardware limitation David Greaves
2008-10-14  2:18 ` SMART to USB/sata dock in 2.6.27-rc5 doesn't work Tejun Heo
2008-10-15 19:16   ` [smartmontools-support] " matthieu castet
2008-10-23 16:04     ` Mark Lord
2008-10-23 18:58       ` matthieu castet
2008-10-23 20:21         ` Mark Lord
2008-10-23 20:36           ` Mark Lord
2008-10-24 18:54             ` matthieu castet
2008-10-25 12:46               ` Mark Lord [this message]
2008-10-23 16:01   ` Mark Lord

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