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On 02/02/2011 03:05 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:29 PM, walt<w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 02/02/2011 07:48 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>>> I have a USB SD-card reader which cannot read the partition table when |
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>>> first inserted into the PC. |
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>> That sounds to me like a bug :) do you see the same on other computers? |
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> Yes, every computer (for several kernel versions now) |
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Well, if an older kernel uses the card reader normally and newer kernels |
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don't, then I assume a kernel bug is responsible. |
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What *I* would do is to use git-bisect in Linus's kernel git repository to |
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isolate the "bad" commit and then report it to the person who submitted the |
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original bad patch to Linus. |
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If that idea sounds weird -- I plead nolo contendere. Yet, it gets kernel |
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bugs fixed. (Very roughly paraphrasing Galileo ;) |