Re: starting with 2.7

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:57:25AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>...
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 05:53:01PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > And then there are issues that are not bugs in the code, but user errors 
> > that have to be avoided. An example is CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB in 2.6.9, which 
> > even the Debian kernel maintainers got wrong in the first kernel 
> > packages they did put into Debian unstable.
> 
> PEBKAC is entirely out of the scope of any program not making direct
> efforts at HCI. CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB was documented for what it was, and
> users configuring kernels are not assumed to be naive.


<--  snip  -->

config BLK_DEV_UB
        tristate "Low Performance USB Block driver"
        depends on USB
        help
          This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices
          such as flash keys.

          If unsure, say N.

<--  snip  -->


Call me naive, but at least for me it wouldn't have been obvious that 
this option cripples the usb-storage driver.


The warning that this option cripples the usb-storage driver was added 
after people who accidentially enabled this option ("it can't harm") 
in 2.6.9 swamped the USB maintainers with bug reports about problems 
with their storage devices.


> -- wli

cu
Adrian

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