On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:47:58 -0500, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'd oppose changing. usb-storage finally works [...] This is exactly what I told myself for 3 long years. The ub consists of pure and distilled anger over oopses and lockups in usb-storage, which overflowed the cup. Essentially I wrote it when we betaed RHEL 4 with completely busted SCSI stack. Remember the "Illegal transition" oopses? I thought, why do I have to put up with this crap? Why did I do it for so long?! And the answer was, "because I did not want to rock the boat, because I wanted to play nicely with others", and not for any technical reason. I saw too many people who pushed their own code because they were too dumb to understand existing code, and I did not want to be like them. It took me the horrible disaster of 2.4.9 to realize my folly. That's how ub started. Then there was a period of calm, with some small problems like interaction with VM. No problem, I thought, just do not use ext3 with usb-storage and you're golden. So, ub went nowhere. Users complained of regressions and poorly made mechanism of sharing of devices (it required a kernel rebuild). Then came the 2.6.13. It's a release where you pull the USB key, you get an oops in khubd, no ifs or buts. It's as if nobody tests anything anymore. So I wrote libusual, which allows for perfect sharing. Now, if usb-storage works well for you, you can do this: echo 'options libusual bias="usb-storage"' >> /etc/modprobe.conf You'll never know that anything has changed. But honestly, I do not feel strongly about all this, not until someone assigns me next bug in usb-storage. It works, for now, and I do feel like arguing with you. Just wanted to let you know that I went through the same denial already and hoped that I would save you some disillusionment. Cheers, -- Pete P.S. Another e-mail from yesterday: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-devel&m=113070746401406&w=2 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
