On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, James Bottomley wrote: > > In fact, the only other important reason for not turning it on by > > default (or always!) is because the USB spec says not to. By adding > > this check for mounted filesystems, we are trying to adhere as closely > > as possible to the spec -- but only in cases where we don't care since > > it doesn't matter! > > > > Whether to enable USB-PERSIST for mounted devices is a policy decision. > > Whether that policy should be set by the kernel or by userspace is > > outside my jursidiction. If you think this approach is wrong-headed > > and you can convince Linus to go along, I'll be willing to drop the > > last three patches in this series. > > So make it default to one now and also put the processes in train to > update hal and udev. That way everything should work immediately and we > come back to spec compliance later. Under the circumstances that sounds like a reasonable course of action. Does anybody have a serious objection? Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
