Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262300AbVAUHtS (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jan 2005 02:49:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262311AbVAUHtS (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jan 2005 02:49:18 -0500 Received: from baythorne.infradead.org ([81.187.226.107]:27561 "EHLO baythorne.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262300AbVAUHtN (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jan 2005 02:49:13 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc1 vs. PowerMac 8500/G3 (and VAIO laptop) [usb-storage oops] From: David Woodhouse To: Greg KH Cc: John Mock , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050121000822.GA14580@kroah.com> References: <1106210408.6932.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050121000822.GA14580@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 07:49:08 +0000 Message-Id: <1106293748.783.31.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by baythorne.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 761 Lines: 19 On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 16:08 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Doh, sorry for missing this one. I've applied your patch to my trees, > and will show up in the next -mm release. Actually I think John's problem was that the usb core code has now _stopped_ doing this byteswapping, and he has a lsusb which is hacked to expect it. So if you apply my patch you're preserving the userspace ABI by reverting to the extremely stupid behaviour of byteswapping _some_ of the fields in the descriptor we pass to userspace. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/