From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: can we move USB_DEVICEFS to non-embedded?
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:42:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090623144221.GA29593@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6a2187b0906222211i4509bc4cu39e9123cba61039a@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:11:51PM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> commit cc71329b3b89b4a5be849b617f2c4f151f0b9213 moved USB_DEVICEFS to
> be embedded and marked it as depreciated. Can this be reverted? This
> breaks vmware and those systems not using udev.
vmware now works properly with this fix, and has for over a year or so.
What distro does not use udev or mdev or something like it already and
also does not use an updated libusb?
We need some specifics here please.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-23 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-23 5:11 can we move USB_DEVICEFS to non-embedded? Jeff Chua
2009-06-23 8:17 ` Scott James Remnant
2009-06-23 14:42 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-06-23 15:29 ` Jeff Chua
2009-06-23 15:39 ` Greg KH
2009-07-08 10:54 ` Dave Airlie
2009-07-08 11:03 ` Kay Sievers
2009-07-08 11:20 ` Dave Airlie
2009-07-08 11:42 ` Scott James Remnant
2009-07-08 13:00 ` Greg KH
2009-07-08 13:52 ` Peter Jones
2009-07-08 13:55 ` Peter Jones
2009-07-08 14:04 ` Greg KH
2009-07-08 14:12 ` Peter Jones
2009-07-08 14:56 ` Greg KH
2009-07-08 15:05 ` Peter Jones
2009-07-08 15:47 ` Greg KH
2009-07-08 21:23 ` Dave Airlie
2009-07-09 0:43 ` Jeff Chua
2009-07-09 1:59 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-07-09 2:31 ` Jeff Chua
2009-07-09 3:01 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-07-09 12:12 ` Jeff Chua
2009-07-09 1:33 ` Greg KH
2009-07-08 15:12 ` Bill Nottingham
2009-07-08 15:44 ` Greg KH
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