Re: 2.6.39 and Powerfile c200

[Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>]

On May 31 Jonathan Isom wrote:
> Well I did some further testing.  If I boot with /bin/sh as init and
> manually load the firewire modules the C200 works.  I moved out all
> kernel modules but firewire and loaded init and it start giving the
> offline messages.  So it appears to be a userspace problem.

(Or a firmware problem actually, provoked by Linux userspace that does not
behave like a Windows system.)

> Just  not sure where to start. I already did some digging in udev but
> no luck so far. I'm running gentoo which probably make tracking it
> down just a little harder as there are few identical installs in the
> world.  Below is a listing of init scripts loaded at boot.
> 
> Any Ideas?
[...]

Nothing obvious as far as I can tell.  The mythbackend perhaps?  Or a GUI
desktop component that is started after login into xdm?

I don't know if there is a logging facility in the kernel's SCSI layer
that could expose the process name of SCSI ioctl issuers, but you can add
one:

--- a/drivers/scsi/sr.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sr.c
@@ -479,6 +479,9 @@ static int sr_block_open(struct block_de
 		ret = cdrom_open(&cd->cdi, bdev, mode);
 		if (ret)
 			scsi_cd_put(cd);
+		else
+			printk(KERN_INFO "***** %s opened by %s *****\n",
+			       cd->cdi.name, current->comm);
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&sr_mutex);
 	return ret;

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Stefan Richter
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