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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:05:17 -0400
From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
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To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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       Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] USB: enable USB-PERSIST by default
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Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> 
> This patch (as1052) enables USB-PERSIST for all devices by default.
> The user won't have to remember to enable it explicitly for devices
> containing mounted filesystems.
> 
> Eventually userspace tools like hal may be able to set the persist
> attribute automatically when a filesystem is mounted on a USB device.
> When that time comes this patch can be reverted, if people think it
> matters.
..

Should the next word below be "that", rather than "this" ?

> This approach has the advantage of giving the user the ability to turn
> off USB-PERSIST for devices with mounted filesystems, rather than
> making the kernel always assume it should be on.
...

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