From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261239AbULTMEm (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:04:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261256AbULTMEm (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:04:42 -0500 Received: from mail.aei.ca ([206.123.6.14]:51198 "EHLO aeimail.aei.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261239AbULTMEl (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:04:41 -0500 From: Ed Tomlinson Organization: me To: Pete Zaitcev Subject: Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] let BLK_DEV_UB depend on EMBEDDED Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:02:48 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 Cc: Matthew Dharm , "Randy.Dunlap" , Adrian Bunk , Greg KH , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20041220001644.GI21288@stusta.de> <20041220062055.GA22120@one-eyed-alien.net> <20041219223723.3e861fc5@lembas.zaitcev.lan> In-Reply-To: <20041219223723.3e861fc5@lembas.zaitcev.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412200702.50071.edt@aei.ca> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 20 December 2004 01:37, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 22:20:55 -0800, Matthew Dharm wrote: > > > I can tell you that this has turned into the single largest source of bug > > reports/complaints about usb-storage. Something has to be done. I just > > don't know what. > > Is it that bad, really? Honestly, I could not imagine users can be so dumb. > The option defaults to off. There is a warning in the Kconfig. And yet they > first enable it and then complain about it. I don't know what to do about > it, either. Its not that they just enable it. Its that it has side effects. I enable it to support one device - it then 'devnaps' other devices that usbstorage supports _much_ better. Is there some way it could work in reverse. eg. let ub bind only if usbstorage does not, possibly making usbstorage a _little_ more conservative if ub is present? Ed Tomlinson