Re: starting with 2.7
From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Tue Jan 04 2005 - 15:47:28 EST
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:57:25AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>...
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 05:53:01PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > And then there are issues that are not bugs in the code, but user errors
> > that have to be avoided. An example is CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB in 2.6.9, which
> > even the Debian kernel maintainers got wrong in the first kernel
> > packages they did put into Debian unstable.
>
> PEBKAC is entirely out of the scope of any program not making direct
> efforts at HCI. CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB was documented for what it was, and
> users configuring kernels are not assumed to be naive.
<-- snip -->
config BLK_DEV_UB
tristate "Low Performance USB Block driver"
depends on USB
help
This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices
such as flash keys.
If unsure, say N.
<-- snip -->
Call me naive, but at least for me it wouldn't have been obvious that
this option cripples the usb-storage driver.
The warning that this option cripples the usb-storage driver was added
after people who accidentially enabled this option ("it can't harm")
in 2.6.9 swamped the USB maintainers with bug reports about problems
with their storage devices.
> -- wli
cu
Adrian
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