Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757416AbYFIVkR (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:40:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752393AbYFIVkF (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:40:05 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:40269 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751777AbYFIVkE (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:40:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:39:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Pavel Machek cc: Greg KH , Alan Stern , Oliver Neukum , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , kernel list , "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc6: CONFIG_USB_PERSIST forced on In-Reply-To: <20080609205916.GC21429@elf.ucw.cz> Message-ID: References: <200806091712.46869.oliver@neukum.org> <20080609195015.GA6601@suse.de> <20080609205916.GC21429@elf.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 638 Lines: 21 On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > > I believe we should just revert the "CONFIG_USB_PERSIST force on" > patch, and solve this properly in 2.6.27. Why? The code would _still_ be buggy with that revert in place. You have to enable CONFIG_USB_PERSIST just to get even the _possibility_ of the sane behavior. If there is a problem with usblp, it just needs to be fixed. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/