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 for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket
[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <48CE217A.1080409@tuffmail.co.uk>
Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:48:58 +0100
From:	Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk>
To:	Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...oo.com>
CC:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Turning off camera also kills card reader on EeePC 900

Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:

> When running Ubuntu from an SD card issuing
> echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/camera
> as root will cause the camera to be turned off AND the SD card to
> immediately disappear (which is rather fatal when you are using it). It's
> hard to know if this is intended behaviour by the BIOS (given that they
> are both USB devices) or a mistake in the platform driver...

It's a bug either way (a regression from the 701 hardware).  I think you
should be able to isolate it.

Firstly, I understand these kill-switches are supposed to be persistent
over reboots.  You should check that the SD card stays disabled when you
reboot.

Next, these settings are also exposed in the BIOS configuration screen,
right?  If it's the same as my 701 then the BIOS will have a separate
option for disabling the cardreader.  So you could see if the platform
driver "camera" switch is simply disabling and enabling the two switches
together.

Or if there's only a BIOS option for the camera, and not the SD card,
then you should test whether it disables the SD card.

Regards
Alan
--
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/

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ