Re: can we move USB_DEVICEFS to non-embedded?

From: Kay Sievers
Date: Wed Jul 08 2009 - 07:04:19 EST


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