Re: [PATCH] bugfix for an underflow condition in usb storage & isd200.c

2008-02-03 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On Thu, Jan 31 2008 at 22:56 +0200, Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > The code in usb_stor_access_xfer_buf() will now correctly attempt to transfer according to buflen and what ever is available at the passed sg's. Now this can

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-03 Thread Christer Weinigel
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 11:19:30 -0800 Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I do know that the current usbfs interface is a major pain, hence the >work to create usbfs2. I know those developers could use the help in >getting that cleaned up and into the kernel tree. >Also see the rapid development the

USB device doesn't get address

2008-02-03 Thread Fabio Venturi
Hi to the list, I'm trying to use a Commodore Flash Disk MP3 player "CO - C.Muse" (I don't know the chipset) but when i plug it I get this: tail -f /var/log/messages.log [...] Feb 3 14:30:57 silverstar usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 12 Feb 3 14:30:57 silversta

Re: USB device doesn't get address

2008-02-03 Thread Alan Stern
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Fabio Venturi wrote: > Hi to the list, > I'm trying to use a Commodore Flash Disk MP3 player "CO - C.Muse" > (I don't know the chipset) > but when i plug it I get this: > > tail -f /var/log/messages.log > > [...] > Feb 3 14:30:57 silverstar usb 1-4: new high speed USB de

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-03 Thread David Newall
Greg KH wrote: > It comes down to the simple fact, if you wish to use Linux, abide by the > license it comes under. To do otherwise is both disenginous and > illegal[1]. I think you're being dishonest. This isn't really about Linux and it being licensed under GPL, is it? Not if you're being 100

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-03 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Christer, On Feb 3, 2008 1:48 PM, Christer Weinigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Saying "use BSD" instead isn't a good answer for me since I don't know > BSD well enough. And personally, I want to see Linux everywhere; I > think it's a lot better to have Linux + a proprietary driver in an > em

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-03 Thread David Newall
Greg KH wrote: > It comes down to the simple fact, if you wish to use Linux, abide by the > license it comes under. To do otherwise is both disenginous and > illegal[1]. By the way, I'm almost certain that the COPYING file is the first, last and only document specifying licence conditions, and not

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-03 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi David, On Feb 3, 2008 5:12 PM, David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way, I'm almost certain that the COPYING file is the first, last > and only document specifying licence conditions, and nothing in that > prevents a proprietary driver from including a patch that, for example, > glo

Re: [PATCH] bugfix for an underflow condition in usb storage & isd200.c

2008-02-03 Thread Alan Stern
Sorry, I understood only about half of what you wrote -- maybe less! On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31 2008 at 22:56 +0200, Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I still don't understand. Can you explain exactly what an overflow > > condition (negative residue) reall

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-03 Thread David Newall
Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi David, > > On Feb 3, 2008 5:12 PM, David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> By the way, I'm almost certain that the COPYING file is the first, last >> and only document specifying licence conditions, and nothing in that >> prevents a proprietary driver from including

Re: [PATCH] bugfix for an underflow condition in usb storage & isd200.c

2008-02-03 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On Sun, Feb 03 2008 at 18:01 +0200, Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, I understood only about half of what you wrote -- maybe less! > > On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 31 2008 at 22:56 +0200, Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I still don't understa

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-03 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi David, On Feb 3, 2008 6:06 PM, David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But what I don't understand is why people insist using the Linux kernel > > for something it clearly can never really properly support (proprietary > > code)? > > That's defeatist. Of course the Linux kernel can properl

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-03 Thread Christer Weinigel
Pekka Enberg wrote: Why are we discussing this again? The Linux kernel is distributed under the GPLv2 and even though there are some legal gray areas regarding derived work (think nvidia and ati binary blobs here), the license is not friendly towards proprietary drivers at all. Why? Because it

[RFC PATCH 0/11] Patches needed to support QE USB Host Controller

2008-02-03 Thread Anton Vorontsov
Hi all, These patches are needed to support "FHCI" host controller. This includes: - GPIO LIB support for PowerPC; - GPIO LIB support for QUICC Engine; - gpio_set_dedicated() addition to GPIO LIB; - QE LIB additions: usb, gtm; - FHCI driver; - Support for MPC8360E-RDK as an example. I have alre

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-03 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi David, > > As there is some controversy over the definition of derived work > > (think Linus' comments on porting a driver or a filesystem from > > another operating system here), we use the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL > > annotations as a big warning sign that what you're doing is likely to > > be consi

Re: USB device doesn't get address

2008-02-03 Thread Fabio Venturi
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:25:11AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Fabio Venturi wrote: > > > Hi to the list, > > I'm trying to use a Commodore Flash Disk MP3 player "CO - C.Muse" > > (I don't know the chipset) > > but when i plug it I get this: > > > > tail -f /var/log/message

Re: [PATCH] bugfix for an underflow condition in usb storage & isd200.c

2008-02-03 Thread Matthew Dharm
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:28:48PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > >From 3610cfa93c990bbbafb296134ac01ef6d426eb8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:31:31 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] bugfix for an overflow condition in usb storage & isd200.c > >

Re: [PATCH] bugfix for an underflow condition in usb storage & isd200.c

2008-02-03 Thread Matthew Dharm
One more comment on the patch... On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:28:48PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > + /* Check for overflow */ > + if (buflen > scsi_bufflen(srb)) { This really should have an unlikely() around it. This is an often-executed code path, and we want to optimize it as much as po

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-03 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:04:24PM +0100, Christer Weinigel wrote: > Pekka Enberg wrote: >> Why are we discussing this again? The Linux kernel is distributed >> under the GPLv2 and even though there are some legal gray areas >> regarding derived work (think nvidia and ati binary blobs here), the >>

wrong cylinders of kingston usb pendrive [intel 82801DB]

2008-02-03 Thread Patrick Ringl
Hello, I am suffering from the following (usb-related?) problem: I have several different mashines - all x86 architecture - just lets call them mashineA, mashineB and mashineC. Anyway, mashineA has a severe problem with a Kingston-USB-pendrive(2gig). I simply cant install anything on it - the

Re: wrong cylinders of kingston usb pendrive [intel 82801DB]

2008-02-03 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:50:37AM +0100, Patrick Ringl wrote: > Hello, > > I am suffering from the following (usb-related?) problem: > > I have several different mashines - all x86 architecture - just lets call > them mashineA, mashineB and mashineC. Is the kernel the same on all of these machin