On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:19:24PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
Am Mittwoch 01 August 2007 schrieb Greg KH:
It will _not_ break hotplug. But it'll break all non-compliant devices unless they are in the list list of quirky devices.However, we know that list is incomplete. But we don't know how incomplete. As a compromise, we might change the default to enable it only for devices with drivers in the kernel. That would be a kind of whitelist.
Yeah, I'm a bit leary of adding this to our kernel just yet, it's still not quite stable on all devices because other operating systems do not do this and hence, a lot of devices are broken with it :(
Yes, on the other hand, something needs to be done about the case of not using USB. I'd activate it only for the hub driver.
How about the other way around? We should have a way to dynamically add devices to the quirk list. That would probably help the majority of the people who run into crappy hardware, and also allow people to easily test things without having to rebuild their whole kernel. Anyone want to make up a patch to do this? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org