From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net (Matthew Dharm)
Cc: r.turk@chello.nl (Rob Turk), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: scsi_scan.c: emulate windows behavior
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 23:26:27 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E163mwl-0002jR-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011113120855.A25014@one-eyed-alien.net> from "Matthew Dharm" at Nov 13, 2001 12:08:55 PM
> This patch doesn't prevent another application from getting more INQUIRY
> bytes. What it does change is how much data the SCSI scanning loop looks
> for. That data is requested, and then thrown away. It's not kept around
> for anything.
>
> If it were kept, I'd agree with you. But it's not. Some useful data is
> copied out of the INQUIRY result, and then the buffer is overwritten by the
> next probing request.
Ok I need to double check that. My merge of the 255 has a note saying for
fixing sane, but that doesnt mean someone didnt overfix the matter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-13 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-13 18:21 Matthew Dharm
2001-11-13 19:49 ` Rob Turk
2001-11-13 20:08 ` Matthew Dharm
2001-11-13 18:02 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-11-13 23:26 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-11-14 1:44 ` Matthew Dharm
2001-11-14 0:45 ` Riley Williams
2001-11-13 22:52 ` Alan Cox
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