Re: 2.2.0-pre2 seems faster than 2.1.132, but SCSI problem?
Kurt Garloff (K.Garloff@ping.de)
Sun, 3 Jan 1999 01:56:23 +0100
On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 06:35:16PM +0100, Gerard Roudier wrote:
> I am interested in the INQUIRY response sent by devices that fail with the
> ncr53c8xx driver. If you want to use scsiinfo for getting such data from a
> scanner, this will not work due to the sg driver only accepting O_RDWR
> open(). Hacking the sg_open() routine in sg.c so that it will also accept
> O_RDONLY open() works around this problem.
Isn't that a kernel bug that should be fixed?
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