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From: "Bjørn Mork" <bjorn@mork.no>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	fangxiaozhi@huawei.com, zihan@huawei.com, Lin.Lei@huawei.com,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	neil.yi@huawei.com, wangyuhua@huawei.com, huqiao36@huawei.com,
	balbi@ti.com, mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net,
	sebastian@breakpoint.cc, stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: storage: fix Huawei mode switching regression
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:47:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878v63ru2i.fsf@nemi.mork.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362407359.3768.337.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> (Ben Hutchings's message of "Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:29:19 +0000")

Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:
> On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 14:19 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> [...]
>> In-kernel mode switching was deprecated years ago with the
>> development of the more user friendly userspace alternatives. The
>> existing list of devices in usb-storage was only kept to prevent
>> breaking already working systems.  The long term plan is to remove
>> the list, not to add to it. Ref:
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.general/28543
> [...]
>
> Can you add a comment to this effect?

In the table in unusual_devs.h, you mean?  Sure, I can do that.

But it feels a bit strange since I can only quote and/or refer to what
Matthew and Greg said about the issue years ago.  Putting a comment in
the code to remind the current maintainers about their own statements
could be considered out of line?  Or is this appropriate here?


Bjørn

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-04 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-04  7:16 [PATCH 2/2]linux-usb:optimize to match the Huawei USB storage devices and support new switch command fangxiaozhi 00110321
2013-03-04 11:41 ` v3.8 regression: Huawei mode switching fails (was Re: [PATCH 2/2]linux-usb:optimize to match the Huawei USB storage devices and support new switch command) Bjørn Mork
2013-03-04 13:19   ` [PATCH] USB: storage: fix Huawei mode switching regression Bjørn Mork
2013-03-04 14:29     ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-04 16:47       ` Bjørn Mork [this message]
2013-03-04 16:59         ` Matthew Dharm
2013-03-04 19:22           ` Bjørn Mork
2013-03-04 22:28             ` Josua Dietze
2013-03-05  8:32               ` Oliver Neukum
2013-03-05 11:35                 ` Bjørn Mork
2013-03-05  2:15     ` Fangxiaozhi (Franko)
2013-03-05 10:07       ` Bjørn Mork
2013-03-05 11:52         ` Oliver Neukum
2013-03-05 14:08           ` Bjørn Mork
2013-03-06  1:34         ` 答复: " Linlei (Lei Lin)
2013-03-06  1:44           ` Greg KH
2013-03-06 15:45             ` Dan Williams
2013-03-07  2:54               ` Fangxiaozhi (Franko)
2013-03-07  3:18                 ` Greg KH
2013-03-07 12:19                 ` Bjørn Mork
2013-03-07 14:11                   ` Josua Dietze
2013-03-05  2:28   ` v3.8 regression: Huawei mode switching fails (was Re: [PATCH 2/2]linux-usb:optimize to match the Huawei USB storage devices and support new switch command) Fangxiaozhi (Franko)
2013-03-05  8:48     ` Oliver Neukum
2013-03-05  9:05       ` Fangxiaozhi (Franko)
2013-03-05 12:23         ` Bjørn Mork
2013-03-06  1:40           ` greg

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