Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756125AbYFIVwd (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:52:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751393AbYFIVw0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:52:26 -0400 Received: from smtp-out003.kontent.com ([81.88.40.217]:38486 "EHLO smtp-out003.kontent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752724AbYFIVwX (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:52:23 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum Organization: NOvell To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc6: CONFIG_USB_PERSIST forced on Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 23:52:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Pavel Machek , Greg KH , Alan Stern , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , kernel list , "Rafael J. Wysocki" References: <200806091712.46869.oliver@neukum.org> <20080609205916.GC21429@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806092352.41681.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 839 Lines: 26 Am Montag 09 Juni 2008 23:39:10 schrieb Linus Torvalds: > > 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. There's a problem with every driver that does not implement reset_resume(). That's the majority of drivers. Regards Oliver -- 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/