Re: USB harddisk drive fails on 2.6.23-rc3 (regression)
David Brownell <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.usb.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Monday 20 August 2007, Alan Stern wrote: > > > To be honest, I'm afraid that the increasing number of bug reports > > > we've been seeing as 2.6.23 comes closer to final release will just > > > explode once a really large group of people start using the new code. > > > And look at the table of quirks entries; these things don't belong in > > > the kernel -- they belong in a user-configurable table. > > ... > > Remember that Linus wants the next release to be very stable... As do most end-users. ;) I suspect the right answer here is to be a lot less aggresive about enabling autosuspend. Maybe even: > > > In other words, I think the initial autosuspend_delay value should be > > > set to -1 for all devices other than hubs. Rules can be added to udev Of course that leaves the puzzle of how to maintain that "table" would be consulted by udev and friends, but that's workable and doesn't need such a tight timetable. - Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel