Re: [usb-storage] BUG: SCSI: usb storage SDHC card doesn't work in 2.6.27-rc1

Alan Stern
2008-07-30T15:27:21Z

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, James Bottomley wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 10:17 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> >
> > > Actually, I'm seriously starting to think that US_FL_IGNORE_RESIDUE should
> > > just become a sysfs parameter which defaults to the 'ignore' state...
> >
> > We have to be careful; there definitely are devices out there which
> > need to use the Residue.
>
> This is sort of a tradeoff ... there was one complaint I saw where a
> device turned read only without the fix idenitifed in this report.
> Devices broken by the fix are definitely crawling out of the woodwork
> now. Either this patch needs to be reverted or a new fix needs to be
> applied soon (and to stable).

I would expect this patch:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=121734710306509&w=2

to take care of most of the problems. But it hasn't yet been merged,
and it can't go into -stable until then.

Alan Stern