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Peter Teoh | 1 Jun 2008 23:34
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Why my USB disk drive is mounted "WriteProtect is on"?

Got no reply from linux-usb.   So trying here.   In the past I was
able to mount it as "WriteProtect is off"....but one day....suddenly
it became "on" on two of my machine, but the others like 3 still
"off".   So right now the status is as follows:

usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WD       1600BEAExternal  1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB)
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is on
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 12 a1 9e af
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB)
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is on
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 12 a1 9e af
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdc: sdc1 sdc2 sdc3 < sdc5 > sdc4
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

But when u plug out and insert into another machine, it may be
detected as "off", why?

With this writeprotect on, there is no way i can mount it for writing.
  Appreciate your answer very much.

THanks.
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Greg KH | 10 Jun 2008 21:05
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[ANNOUNCE] linux-staging tree created

Oh great, not yet-another-kernel-tree, just what the world needs...

Yes, this is an announcement of a new kernel tree, linux-staging.  It is
a quilt series of patches that can be found at:
	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git

In a long and meandering thread with some of the other kernel developers
a week or so ago, it came up that there is no single place for companies
and developers to put their code for testing while it gets cleaned up
for submission into the kernel tree.  All of the different subsystems
have trees, but they generally only want code that is about to go into
this release, or the next one.  For stuff that is farther off, there is
no place to go.

So, here's the tree for it.  From the README:

PURPOSE

The linux-staging tree was created to hold drivers and filesystems and
other semi-major additions to the Linux kernel that are not ready to be
merged at this point in time.  It is here for companies and authors to
get a wider range of testing, and to allow for other members of the
community to help with the development of these features for the
eventual inclusion into the main kernel tree.

This tree will be included in the daily linux-next builds, and will get
testing by all users of that tree.

The rules of what can be included here is as follows:
	- the code must be released under a Linux kernel-compatible
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Greg KH | 10 Jun 2008 21:06
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linux-staging status for June 10, 2008

Here is a list of the current patches in the linux-staging tree, and
their current status.

 - 17 patches
 - 192 files changed, 131073 insertions(+), 651 deletions(-)

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Patch: aectc: add the aectc driver
Contact: Brandon Philips <brandon at ifup.org>

Status:
  Being reworked to use the UIO interface instead of char driver
  Part of the linuxdriverproject.org development effort.

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Patch: DVB: add firesat driver
Contact: Manu Abraham <manu at linuxtv.org> and Greg KH <greg at kroah.com>

Status:
  Currently waiting for more DVB tuner development to finish off the
  remaining features.  Will be submitted to the DVB developers for
  inclusion in the kernel tree soon, as waiting for that effort might be
  a while.
  Part of the linuxdriverproject.org development effort.

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Patch: Framebuffer: add the VIA framebuffer driver
Contact: Benjamin Pan <BenjaminPan at viatech.com> and Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg at kroah.com>

Status:
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Felipe Balbi | 11 Jun 2008 02:07
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[ANNOUNCE] linux-staging tree created

hi,

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> Oh great, not yet-another-kernel-tree, just what the world needs...
>
> Yes, this is an announcement of a new kernel tree, linux-staging.  It is
> a quilt series of patches that can be found at:
>        git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
>
>
> In a long and meandering thread with some of the other kernel developers
> a week or so ago, it came up that there is no single place for companies
> and developers to put their code for testing while it gets cleaned up
> for submission into the kernel tree.  All of the different subsystems
> have trees, but they generally only want code that is about to go into
> this release, or the next one.  For stuff that is farther off, there is
> no place to go.

That's great. I started working on the test and measurement class
driver. Do you want me to send preliminary patches or just the final
one ?

--

-- 
Best Regards,

Felipe Balbi
felipebalbi at users.sourceforge.net
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Greg KH | 11 Jun 2008 05:29
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:05:46AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Would you consider including TuxOnIce in it?
> 
> I do still want to get it merged and would appreciate feedback.

Is the patch "stand-alone", only adding new code in discrete chunks like
a new driver or filesystem would?

If not, I don't think it is relevant.  Odds are you want to be your own
series of patches, like we discussed years ago, right?

thanks,

greg k-h
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Greg KH | 11 Jun 2008 05:28
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:07:30AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> > Oh great, not yet-another-kernel-tree, just what the world needs...
> >
> > Yes, this is an announcement of a new kernel tree, linux-staging.  It is
> > a quilt series of patches that can be found at:
> >        git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
> >
> >
> > In a long and meandering thread with some of the other kernel developers
> > a week or so ago, it came up that there is no single place for companies
> > and developers to put their code for testing while it gets cleaned up
> > for submission into the kernel tree.  All of the different subsystems
> > have trees, but they generally only want code that is about to go into
> > this release, or the next one.  For stuff that is farther off, there is
> > no place to go.
> 
> That's great. I started working on the test and measurement class
> driver. Do you want me to send preliminary patches or just the final
> one ?

I'll take whatever you have, prelim patches is nice if you are at a
stopping point and want to make sure I get them applied :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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Jeffrey Ollie | 11 Jun 2008 06:48
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Zaptel/DAHDI drivers

Since it appears that Digium has no interest in pushing
Zaptel/DAHDI[1] (the Zaptel drivers are being renamed due to a
trademark conflict[2]) would it be kosher for someone else to push the
Zaptel/DAHDI drivers into the mainline kernel?  The drivers are dual
licensed under both the GPL and a commercial license.  I don't have
the time/skills/equipment to do the job myself, but I'd be very
interested in the result and possibly doing some testing on what
hardware I do have.

Jeff

[1] http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2008-May/032995.html
[2] http://blogs.digium.com/2008/05/19/zaptel-project-being-renamed-to-dahdi/
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Felipe Balbi | 11 Jun 2008 11:58
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Hi,

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh at panasas.com> wrote:

> I want to send them to linux-scsi-ml and also To: Greg KH
> Requesting to be included in "linux-staging tree". Is that
> sufficient?

just don't forget to add copyright notes in all files :-)--
Best Regards,

Felipe Balbi
felipebalbi at users.sourceforge.net
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Benny Halevy | 11 Jun 2008 11:27
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[ANNOUNCE] linux-staging tree created

Greg,

The OSD initiator (see
http://git.open-osd.org/gitweb.cgi?p=open-osd.git;a=summary)
looks in principle like a great fit for linux-staging.

What would be the mechanics of including it?

Benny

On Jun. 10, 2008, 22:05 +0300, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> Oh great, not yet-another-kernel-tree, just what the world needs...
> 
> Yes, this is an announcement of a new kernel tree, linux-staging.  It is
> a quilt series of patches that can be found at:
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
> 
> 
> In a long and meandering thread with some of the other kernel developers
> a week or so ago, it came up that there is no single place for companies
> and developers to put their code for testing while it gets cleaned up
> for submission into the kernel tree.  All of the different subsystems
> have trees, but they generally only want code that is about to go into
> this release, or the next one.  For stuff that is farther off, there is
> no place to go.
> 
> So, here's the tree for it.  From the README:
> 
> PURPOSE
>
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Boaz Harrosh | 11 Jun 2008 11:50
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[ANNOUNCE] linux-staging tree created

Benny Halevy wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> The OSD initiator (see
> http://git.open-osd.org/gitweb.cgi?p=open-osd.git;a=summary)
> looks in principle like a great fit for linux-staging.
> 

The patches are not yet there, Benny. They are currently 
out-of-tree here:
http://git.open-osd.org/gitweb.cgi?p=osd-lib.git;a=summary

It will take me until end of next week to separate them into
a consumable patchset. Which will also move them in-tree.

> What would be the mechanics of including it?
> 

I want to send them to linux-scsi-ml and also To: Greg KH
Requesting to be included in "linux-staging tree". Is that
sufficient?

> Benny
> 

Boaz

> On Jun. 10, 2008, 22:05 +0300, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
>> Oh great, not yet-another-kernel-tree, just what the world needs...
>>
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