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From: "John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions
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>>>>> "Al" == Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> writes:

Al> The only place where _transport_ enters the picture is that RBC is
Al> very common in e.g. firewire-to-IDE bridges, so sbp2 had to deal
Al> with it somehow.  And instead of teaching sd.c to deal with those
Al> (it's very easy) it went ahead and just marked those as type 0
Al> (disk).  Almost worked...

I wonder if this change will fix all the problems I've had trying to
make my prolific chipset (crap) Firewire/USB enclosure to actually
work when used with firewire?  It's finally stable with USB, but
obviously not the best performance.

Gotta try this again sometime.

John