Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754886AbZGHLET (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 07:04:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753087AbZGHLEM (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 07:04:12 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f225.google.com ([209.85.218.225]:33750 "EHLO mail-bw0-f225.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752738AbZGHLEL (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 07:04:11 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970907080354h6949b27va40fb830f612287@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090623144221.GA29593@suse.de> <20090623153928.GA32604@suse.de> <21d7e9970907080354h6949b27va40fb830f612287@mail.gmail.com> From: Kay Sievers Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:03:55 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: can we move USB_DEVICEFS to non-embedded? To: Dave Airlie Cc: Greg KH , Jeff Chua , Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds , Scott James Remnant , Dave Jones , Peter Jones Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 657 Lines: 16 On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:54, Dave Airlie wrote: > Okay can we revert this for a better reason? it seems to have unhidden a race > condition on booting some of my machines. I've booted some other machines > with the same USB disk and the same kernel fine. Are you sure? USBFS is for userspace USB drivers, booting from usb-storage devices should be fully handled by the kernel. Thanks, Kay -- 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/