Re: 2.6.25-rc6: CONFIG_USB_PERSIST forced on

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Jun 09 2008 - 17:40:17 EST




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
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