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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

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

-- 
 EMail:joerg@...ily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
       js@...tu-berlin.de                (uni)  
       schilling@...us.fraunhofer.de     (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/
 URL:  http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/