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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Cc: usb-storage@lists.one-eyed-alien.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]indistinguishable devices with broken and unbroken firmware
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:05:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070207150555.GA7054@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702071522.39529.oneukum@suse.de>

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:22:39PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there's a USB mass storage device which exists in two version. One
> reports the correct size and the other does not. Apart from that they
> are identical and cannot be told apart. Here's a heuristic based on the
> empirical finding that drives have even sizes. I know it's ugly, but it fixes
> an ugly bug.

Do we really need a second flag?  Alternatively fix_capacity could be
changed to mean fix size if odd.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-07 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-07 14:22 [PATCH]indistinguishable devices with broken and unbroken firmware Oliver Neukum
2007-02-07 15:05 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-02-07 15:16   ` Oliver Neukum
2007-02-07 18:42     ` [usb-storage] " Alan Stern
2007-02-07 18:40 ` Alan Stern

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