From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756624AbYEZRKM (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 13:10:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754279AbYEZRKA (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 13:10:00 -0400 Received: from smtp-out002.kontent.com ([81.88.40.216]:54911 "EHLO smtp-out002.kontent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754141AbYEZRJ7 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 13:09:59 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum Organization: NOvell To: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: Top 10 bugs/warnings for the week of March 23rd, 2008 Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 19:09:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Ingo Molnar , Jan Kara , Arjan van de Ven , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , Andrew Morton References: <4836EE8C.1010200@linux.intel.com> <20080526164858.GA24098@elte.hu> <20080526170147.GB9893@mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20080526170147.GB9893@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805261909.59032.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Montag 26 Mai 2008 19:01:48 schrieb Theodore Tso: > If the USB stack folks would like to work on how to recognize that > it's the same USB stick that had been previously pulled, so that it > gets the same block device, and we can decide for how long we should > keep dirty buffers around associated with a pulled USB stick, we can > certainly have that conversation.  :-) Even if we could tell whether the device has remained the same, how would we know the medium wasn't exchanged? Regards Oliver