Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:51:53 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
       Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
       Linux USB kernel mailing list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
       Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected)
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> > Though it's an onboard USB SSD, not a pluggable stick.
> 
> Wow, that's insane.  Leave it to a hardware designer to use a bus that
> you never know if you have discovered all the devices to be the primary
> device to boot from.

Let me see:

- Standardised small component
- Low pin count and low wire count bus
- Cheap

In an embedded environment where you know the device is wired in at
software level that strikes me not as insane but very sensible.
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