linux/include
Alan Stern 25ff1c316f USB: storage: add last-sector hacks
This patch (as1189b) adds some hacks to usb-storage for dealing with
the growing problems involving bad capacity values and last-sector
accesses:

	A new flag, US_FL_CAPACITY_OK, is created to indicate that
	the device is known to report its capacity correctly.  An
	unusual_devs entry for Linux's own File-backed Storage Gadget
	is added with this flag set, since g_file_storage always
	reports the correct capacity and since the capacity need
	not be even (it is determined by the size of the backing
	file).

	An entry in unusual_devs.h which has only the CAPACITY_OK
	flag set shouldn't prejudice libusual, since the device will
	work perfectly well with either usb-storage or ub.  So a
	new macro, COMPLIANT_DEV, is added to let libusual know
	about these entries.

	When a last-sector access succeeds and the total number of
	sectors is odd (the unexpected case, in which guessing that
	the number is even might cause trouble), a WARN is triggered.
	The kerneloops.org project will collect these warnings,
	allowing us to add CAPACITY_OK flags for the devices in
	question before implementing the default-to-even heuristic.
	If users want to prevent the stack dump produced by the WARN,
	they can disable the hack by adding an unusual_devs entry
	for their device with the CAPACITY_OK flag.

	When a last-sector access fails three times in a row and
	neither the FIX_CAPACITY nor the CAPACITY_OK flag is set,
	we assume the last-sector bug is present.  We replace the
	existing status and sense data with values that will cause
	the SCSI core to fail the access immediately rather than
	retry indefinitely.  This should fix the difficulties
	people have been having with Nokia phones.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-07 10:00:11 -08:00
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acpi cpumask: convert shared_cpu_map in acpi_processor* structs to cpumask_var_t 2009-01-03 19:15:40 +01:00
asm-arm [ARM] S3C24XX: Move mci.h to arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/include/plat 2008-10-30 10:17:16 +00:00
asm-frv frv: introduce asm/swab.h 2009-01-06 18:10:28 -08:00
asm-generic remove linux/hardirq.h from asm-generic/local.h 2009-01-06 15:59:13 -08:00
asm-h8300
asm-m32r m32r: introduce asm/swab.h 2009-01-06 18:10:28 -08:00
asm-m68k m68k: introduce asm/swab.h 2009-01-06 18:10:27 -08:00
asm-mn10300 mn10300: introduce asm/swab.h 2009-01-06 18:10:29 -08:00
asm-xtensa atomic_t: unify all arch definitions 2009-01-06 15:59:10 -08:00
crypto crypto: aes - Precompute tables 2008-12-25 11:05:13 +11:00
drm drm: Add a debug node for vblank state. 2008-12-29 17:47:27 +10:00
keys KEYS: Disperse linux/key_ui.h 2008-11-14 10:39:13 +11:00
linux USB: storage: add last-sector hacks 2009-01-07 10:00:11 -08:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (10141): v4l2: debugging API changed to match against driver name instead of ID. 2009-01-02 17:11:52 -02:00
mtd
net Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2009-01-07 09:58:22 +11:00
pcmcia
rdma
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] fcoe: Fibre Channel over Ethernet 2008-12-29 11:24:33 -06:00
sound Merge branch 'topic/asoc' into for-linus 2009-01-06 09:48:51 +01:00
trace sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup() 2008-12-25 13:10:21 +01:00
video video: sh_mobile_lcdcfb deferred io support 2008-12-22 18:44:48 +09:00
xen xen: clean up asm/xen/hypervisor.h 2008-12-16 21:50:31 +01:00
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