linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] USB autosuspend fixes for 2.6.23-rc6

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Message-ID: <46efaaee.iiX5iPDduWZOOvLg%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Date:	Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:39:42 +0200
From:	Joerg.Schilling@...us.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stern@...land.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] USB autosuspend fixes for 2.6.23-rc6


> That's true now, but it wasn't always.  Until the last year or so, 
> cdrecord wouldn't work properly with USB CD drives having a 64-sector 
> limit unless the user added a particular command-line argument. 

This is a bug that is known since ~ 3 years and that has been fixed 
_very_ recently. It was still present in 2.6.21.7 a few weeks ago.

And BTW: the limit was not 64 sectors but ~13 sectors. 64 sectors would be at 
least 128 kB but the limit was ~ 32k.





Jörg

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