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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:46:47 -0400
From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
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To: matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>,
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Subject: Re: [smartmontools-support] SMART to USB/sata dock in 2.6.27-rc5
 doesn't work
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matthieu castet wrote:
..
> I wonder with the patch doesn't make smartctl work without permisive. 
> May be your usb id wasn't in the patch.
..

Heh.. I didn't even look at the patch itself.
But if it is relying upon a whitelist to work,
then it's broken by design.

Most new USB drives will be supporting SAT,
and requiring a kernel patch/update (or some other
whitelist in userspace) is a silly way to support them.

Cheers
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