On 5/20/2020 11:09 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > A: No. > Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? > > http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top > > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 01:29:45PM -0400, Alan Cooper wrote: >> Greg, Alan, >> >> The other 4 related patches were accepted into usb-next and I just >> realized that this one didn't make it. This patch will not fix the >> "insmod out of order" issue, but will help our controllers work with >> some poorly behaved USB devices when the drivers are builtin. > > As it doesn't solve the real issue, I did not accept this so that you > all can continue to work on creating a real solution that works for both > situations (built in and as modules.) > > I thought I said that already... Your message was not clear to me at least, I understood your message as: I acknowledge the problem you are trying to solve and accept Al's solution for the case where modules are built-in, and another solution should be found for when the modules are built as loadable modules. But okay, your message is clear now :). -- Florian