From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Pkt49-0002a0-5v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 06:53:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D52D1C002; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 06:51:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D60F41C002 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 06:51:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf22 with SMTP id 22so1009895wyf.40 for ; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:51:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=zFMgPyRVC5P+wAbQbocRGuQletH6ZPM2ny18TRD47wY=; b=SUTdVWif2C1RaLBOZ2V/AjravOZcL2Bzi/YmC1cKz6FUOTfG3Q6Sd5NjmMwEHHhnz7 AtW4RICMpaYybFqK3ShNfUmE1khfkEb4PdQQ4+YpqLEQI9+LqN/f0+8e5BYUhDuQTAy7 pYaYf+uHd4WdeKtaggUVHkE05AxPJcz5oyzVY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=aGipXSvzYxs0G5nydSDF0OPD/uB/QTBXXzmBfuMNpH5TfaVLm6Qx8p4MDrb8q+EiYH OfBgonSfrh1C+0v2RnvZhi9JV0F6s9gTF9yYAzR0Yl9C6NBucr+sKQ0sFUoqoYPEaxKh NdiURJodPOamjpS12/0P8i+4m0/MfPw5lcMbU= Received: by 10.216.56.65 with SMTP id l43mr2662466wec.113.1296715912862; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:51:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o19sm250310wee.2.2011.02.02.22.51.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:51:52 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB stick recognition problem Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 08:52:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.37-ck; KDE/4.6.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <1296467018.11903.2@numa-i> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102030852.18226.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8aed868abc1eb5acf237b013c7753ca0 Apparently, though unproven, at 08:08 on Thursday 03 February 2011, Paul Hartman did opine thusly: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:11 PM, walt wrote: > > On 02/02/2011 03:05 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:29 PM, walt wrote: > >>> On 02/02/2011 07:48 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > >>>> I have a USB SD-card reader which cannot read the partition table when > >>>> first inserted into the PC. > >>> > >>> That sounds to me like a bug :) do you see the same on other > >>> computers? > >> > >> Yes, every computer (for several kernel versions now) > > > > Well, if an older kernel uses the card reader normally and newer kernels > > don't, then I assume a kernel bug is responsible. > > > > What *I* would do is to use git-bisect in Linus's kernel git repository > > to isolate the "bad" commit and then report it to the person who > > submitted the original bad patch to Linus. > > > > If that idea sounds weird -- I plead nolo contendere. Yet, it gets > > kernel bugs fixed. (Very roughly paraphrasing Galileo ;) > > I meant that I've tried it for a few kernel versions (it's not a new > card reader, it's a few years old). It has never worked properly in > Linux since I've owned it. Then the reader itself is probably horribly broken. Or has been built to comply to "whatever broken Windows is doing today" My USD card reader JustWorks(tm) everywhere with everything. And they are dirt cheap, about the price of the smallest SD card I can buy. Time for a new reader perhaps? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com