Re: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1

Alan Stern
2007-12-14T15:44:51Z

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Dave Young wrote:

> Hi,
> The behaviour of my mp3 player (also act as usb-storage device) seems
> changed from rc5 to rc5-mm1.

This can't be considered a bug, right? It's just that the player
changed from one slightly non-standard behavior to a different slightly
non-standard behavior.

> <dmesg output under rc5>:
> =========
> usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
> usb 1-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usb-storage: device found at 7
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access Newman mp3 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 245248 512-byte hardware sectors (126 MB)
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is on
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 80 00
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 245248 512-byte hardware sectors (126 MB)
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is on
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 80 00
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sdb: sdb1
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
> sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
> usb-storage: device scan complete
>
> ==========
> try mount it (or just blockdev --rereadpt), then write protect become off:
> ==========
>
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 245248 512-byte hardware sectors (126 MB)
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 245248 512-byte hardware sectors (126 MB)
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sdb: sdb1

This output won't appear if you simply mount the device. So how do you
know that mounting turns off write protect?

> But under rc5-mm1, after mount command being executed, it is just
> mouted as read only partition without set the write-protect to off
>
> I tried "blockdev --rereadpt", it do set the write-protect to off as rc5 kernel.
>
> Below is the output of dmesg under rc5-mm1
> ==========
> usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
> usb 1-8: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usb-storage: device found at 6
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access Newman mp3 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
> sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 245248 512-byte hardware sectors (126 MB)
> sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is on
> sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 80 00
> sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 245248 512-byte hardware sectors (126 MB)
> sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is on
> sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 80 00
> sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sdb: sdb1

This looks exactly the same as the output above (except for various
port, device, and bus numbers).

If you turn on CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG for both kernels and compare
the dmesg output for the mount command, that might highlight the
difference.

Alan Stern