Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (30 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 02:57:36PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There's a fate entry (#300647, sorry for those who cannot have access to
> it -- I'm asking if it can be made public) to have the desktop unmount
> all partitions from USB (& firewire) devices when the computer is
> suspended because unloading usb-storage would fail.
>
> My understanding of all this is... not perfect :-) So here are a few
> questions and hopefully the replies will help me:
>
>  + can kernel people tell if this is still a potential issue?

No, it should not be.

>  + if we need to do this, shouldn't the kernel just do it anyway?
>    (or maybe hal -- it seems weird to me to have all desktops implement
>    this)
>
>  + what can we do for processes that are using files on those
>    partitions?

Just leave it alone, we now have CONFIG_USB_PERSIST which should handle
this just fine.  usb-storage should not be unloaded anymore in recent
kernels.

That fate entry should be rejected, do you want me to go do that?

thanks,

greg k-h
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