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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] test: ums: Add sleep before unmount directory
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 00:03:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141107230307.791553833CD@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <545D40E1.2030700@wwwdotorg.org>

Dear Stephen,

In message <545D40E1.2030700@wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
>
> > My gut feeling is that there might be some USB driver error involved
> > here.
> 
> Where I've seen this is writing to an SD card in a USB-based SD card reader.
> 
> I have a fairly regular amd64 machine running Ubuntu. I put the loop 
> above into my own scripts that mount an SD card, copy new data to it, 
> and then immediately unmount it for the same reason that Lukasz made 
> this patch; umount doesn't always unmount. I did this so long ago that I 
> don't recall which Ubuntu version I had at the time, nor the kernel 
> version. It was *probably* Ubuntu 10.04 or 12.10 though. Now I'm on 
> 14.04, but have no idea if I still need the loop since it's already in 
> place:-)

But this is a bug.  Papering over is not a good idea.  It should be
analyzed, reported, and finally fixed.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-07 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-06 10:23 [U-Boot] [PATCH] test: ums: Add sleep before unmount directory Lukasz Majewski
2014-11-06 17:00 ` Stephen Warren
2014-11-06 21:30   ` Lukasz Majewski
2014-11-07 13:05 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] " Lukasz Majewski
2014-11-07 15:28   ` Marek Vasut
2014-11-07 16:52     ` Lukasz Majewski
2014-11-07 21:02       ` Marek Vasut
2014-11-07 15:33   ` Stephen Warren
2014-11-07 21:54   ` Wolfgang Denk
2014-11-07 22:00     ` Stephen Warren
2014-11-07 23:03       ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2014-11-12 14:29         ` Lukasz Majewski
2014-11-12 16:45           ` Wolfgang Denk
2014-11-12 18:11             ` Stephen Warren
2014-11-12 21:49               ` Lukasz Majewski
2014-11-14 10:43                 ` Lukasz Majewski

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