Re: [PATCH 2.4] blacklist a device in usb-storage

[Pete Zaitcev]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:48:12 +0300
"O.Sezer" <sezeroz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I do not understand what the objective might be. Just do not
> > use that thing with Linux kernel 2.4. Why do you wish "to revent
> > usb-storage from taking over this disk"?

> As I said above, I cannot prevent accidentals (VID/PIDs aren't
> printed on the disk, yo know...) And usb-storage must not deal
> with disks that it cannot deal with:
> 1. This particular disk can lead to panics as I said.
> 2. If someone ever writes a driver specific to this device (I
>     know it's less than highly unlikely), than it would be also
>     useful in that case if the disk isn't tried to be owned by
>     usb-storage. That, I think applies as a general case, too.

The #2 only makes sense when such driver appears.

As for #1, why don't you post the dmesg from your "panic".

-- Pete
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