Hi Alan, ... On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:13:03PM -0800, Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > 2) All this patch does is cover up a pretty serious bug, without completely > > > covering it up. The end-user still winds up with an unreliable storage > > > device. With your patch, it may simply be a little less unreliable. > > > > It may be possible to do this with an RT thread. Maybe something like > > this untested version? > > If you want to make the usb-storage thread RT, why not do so from the > beginning? However it's far from clear that this would be a good thing > to do. Yes, 100% agreed, I think you'd need to do it at the start and I think it is a much too drastic change for a problem that only seems to hit about once every month or so of use... Arthur -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
