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Message-ID: <20130319000656.GC6516@kroah.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:06:56 -0700
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@...el.com>,
Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
Sameer Nanda <snanda@...omium.org>,
Vincent Palatin <vpalatin@...omium.org>,
Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: Make USB persist default configurable
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 05:02:19PM -0700, Julius Werner wrote:
> > Why can't you just revert this in userspace? Isn't that easier than
> > doing a kernel patch and providing an option that we need to now
> > maintain for pretty much forever?
>
> I could solve it in userspace, but that really feels like a hacky
> workaround and not a long term solution. It would mean that every new
> device starts with persist enabled and stays that way for a few
> milliseconds (maybe up to seconds if it's connected on boot), until
> userspace gets around to disable it again... opening the possibility
> for very weird race conditions and bugs with drivers/devices that
> don't work with persist.
What drivers/devices don't work with persist? We need to know that now,
otherwise all other distros and users have problems, right?
> This default is a policy that really resides in the kernel, it has
> changed in the past, and since there is no definitive better choice
> for all cases I thought making it configurable is the right thing to
> do.
Too many options can be a bad thing.
I think Alan made this a "always on" option, so I'd like to get his
opinion on it. Alan?
thanks,
greg k-h
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