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Date:      Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:13:59 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/usb umass.c 
Message-ID:  <43468.1172657639@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:10:00 MST." <20070228.031000.1649769988.imp@bsdimp.com> 

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In message <20070228.031000.1649769988.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes
:

>: >  Create a new quirk READ_CAPACITY_OFFBY1 
>: 
>: A better idea would be to have scsi_da.c try to read the 
>: last sector and chop it if it fails.
>
>Why is that a better idea?

Because it will work automatically and not rely on us preventively
adding the bogus devices to the kernel.

Trivially testable quicks shouldn't have to be compiled into
static lists.

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