Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"

Alan Cox
2004-10-28T11:21:40Z

On Iau, 2004-10-28 at 03:59, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> I really wonder why is it risky? 99% of the time USB is loaded eventually
> and does handoff anyway. What is the problem doing it earlier? Ones who
> indeed use USB in legacy mode will have to boot with "no-handoff". I think
> if you look at the numbers people using USB in legacy mode is a fraction
> of a percent.

The code to do the mode switches is non trivial, has to handle errata
and the like. If you compile in USB rather than having it modular then
it'll work out fine too which is another reason not to add a hack to -ac
when there is a safer fix 8)