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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:05:17 -0400 From: Mark Lord <lkml@....ca> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de> Cc: linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] USB: enable USB-PERSIST by default Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> > > This patch (as1052) enables USB-PERSIST for all devices by default. > The user won't have to remember to enable it explicitly for devices > containing mounted filesystems. > > Eventually userspace tools like hal may be able to set the persist > attribute automatically when a filesystem is mounted on a USB device. > When that time comes this patch can be reverted, if people think it > matters. .. Should the next word below be "that", rather than "this" ? > This approach has the advantage of giving the user the ability to turn > off USB-PERSIST for devices with mounted filesystems, rather than > making the kernel always assume it should be on. ... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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