linux-kernel - Re: can we move USB_DEVICEFS to non-embedded?

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Message-ID: <ac3eb2510907080403h14e5597eu3dee309456eab17e@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:03:55 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Scott James Remnant <scott@...onical.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: can we move USB_DEVICEFS to non-embedded?

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:54, Dave Airlie<airlied@...il.com> 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
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