Re: [linux-usb-devel] RFC drivers/usb/storage/libusual

2005-10-11 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 17:01 -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > - request_module() is icky. I keep wanting to get rid of that > > function, and really don't want to see any further users get added. > > But that's just my feeling, if there's no other way to do this, I > > don't mind. > >

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB disk unusable level of data corruption

2005-02-06 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 21:15 -0800, David Brownell wrote: > And I didn't see an "unusual_devs.h" entry for it, but it does > look to need the CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_HP8200e support, which I > see is labeled "experimental". I don't know how solid the > support for that is. But I see Greg's checked in

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB disk unusable level of data corruption

2005-02-06 Thread Rusty Russell
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 12:41 -0800, David Brownell wrote: > On Friday 04 February 2005 4:16 am, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > > Is USB/SCSI just terminally broken under 2.6? > > I don't think so, but there are problems that appear in some > hardware configs and not

[linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB disk unusable level of data corruption

2005-02-04 Thread Rusty Russell
OK, I recently made the mistake of buying a USB case with a drive in it and putting my home directory on it. I have since then had multiple ext3 and ext2 errors: 2.6.8, 2.6.9, 2.6.10 and 2.6.11-rc3 all exhibit the problem within an hour of stress (untarring a fresh kernel tree, cp -al'ing to apply

Re: [linux-usb-devel] death by module unloading

2003-02-18 Thread Rusty Russell
internal counter, and doesn't use the module refcounts at all. On module_exit, it spins until that count hits zero. Bad, huh? Hope that clarifies, Rusty. -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell. --- This S

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34

2002-09-17 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 11:06:09 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > > Let's try a different show of hands: How many users would be happier if > > they knew that kernel developers are using modern techniques to improve > > the

Re: [linux-usb-devel] set_bit() and friends now need a long paramater

2002-04-23 Thread Rusty Russell
of these "everything knows" things which many people didn't know. So, please do really fix your code! The best way to fit these guarantees is to simply make it an "unsigned long" if you're going to do bitops on it. Ho