Re: [example PATCH - not for applying] exclude certain commands

[Mike Bursell <mike@hingston.demon.co.uk>]

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On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 23:39, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> Yesterday or so we discussed three people's problems with USB devices.
> Today a fourth very similar complaint was reported.
> 
> I asked
> 
> > Could you try this patch of drivers/scsi/sd.c?
> >
> > --- sd.c~       Sun Apr 20 12:59:32 2003
> > +++ sd.c        Wed Apr 23 21:45:10 2003
> > @@ -1079,6 +1079,9 @@
> >                   int dbd, int modepage, unsigned char *buffer, int len) {
> >         unsigned char cmd[8];
> >
> > +       if (len < 8)
> > +               len = 8;
> > +
> >         memset((void *) &cmd[0], 0, 8);
> >         cmd[0] = MODE_SENSE;
> >         cmd[1] = dbd;
> 
> and got the reply
> 
> #
> # Wohoo! Patch worked like a charm. Thanks Andries!
> #
> 
> So, for the time being I assume we know what is causing
> these problems. It would be nice if the other three
> (afafc@rnl.ist.utl.pt, mike@hingston.demon.co.uk, stelian@popies.net)
> could report on their experiences with the above patch.

I can confirm that this patch worked for me under 2.5.68: everything
works absolutely fine.  However, given that I can't open terminals under
Gnome in 2.5.68, I think I'll stick with 2.5.67 (I assume that that the
patch is also OK with this version).

Well done, and thanks.

-Mike.
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