On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:11 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/02/2011 03:05 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:29 PM, walt<w41...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 02/02/2011 07:48 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: >>> >>>> I have a USB SD-card reader which cannot read the partition table when >>>> first inserted into the PC. > >>> That sounds to me like a bug :) do you see the same on other computers? > >> Yes, every computer (for several kernel versions now) > > Well, if an older kernel uses the card reader normally and newer kernels > don't, then I assume a kernel bug is responsible. > > What *I* would do is to use git-bisect in Linus's kernel git repository to > isolate the "bad" commit and then report it to the person who submitted the > original bad patch to Linus. > > If that idea sounds weird -- I plead nolo contendere. Yet, it gets kernel > bugs fixed. (Very roughly paraphrasing Galileo ;)
I meant that I've tried it for a few kernel versions (it's not a new card reader, it's a few years old). It has never worked properly in Linux since I've owned it.
