On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 02:01:18PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > *Why* do they need the capability? Users *should not care* which > > > driver they use - if they do, one of them needs fixed. > > > > Well, such is the theory, but in practice making an alternative driver > > to handle all cases creates an impossibly high barrier to entry. > > The common solution is to pass known-good devices from old driver to > > new driver (e.g. 8139too, e100). This is, unfortunately, impossible > > in case of USB storage. > > That's what I'm asking - why is it impossible? We've turned off > things like eepro100, so I'm not sure why disabling usb-storage > for X, Y, and Z would be a problem. After all, anything left couldn't > be worse than firewire. :) The most obvious one to me is things like eepro100 supported about a dozen cards. usb-storage supports thousands of devices. Whitelisting those isn't really practical. Dave -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
