Re: PATCH: usb-storage: move to SCSI hotplugging

[Matthew Dharm <mdharm-scsi@one-eyed-alien.net>]

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On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:56:01PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 19. Januar 2003 23:30 schrieb Matthew Dharm:
> > The attached patch is my first implementation of SCSI hotplugging.
> >
> > It's only been tested that it compiles, as I can't get the current
> > linux-2.5 tree from linuxusb to boot.  It dies _very_ early.  Greg, I'm not
> 
> Just a black screen?
> I suffered from the same problem until today. The key was to compile
> without VGA mode selection.

Nope.  It loads, uncompresses, and stops a few lines after reading the
memory map.

> As for the patch itself, it's quite hard to grasp something of this size.
> Is the information previously used to make GUID available to other parts
> of the kernel? Otherwise I think you should not cut it out, but only remove
> the reattachment part.

GUID is a combination of VID, PID, and serial number.  Anyone can make one.
The only reason to have it was for re-attachment.

Matt

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