Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: Commit "[PATCH] USB: Always do usb-handoff" breaks my powerbook

From: David Brownell
Date: Mon Oct 31 2005 - 23:17:41 EST



> > > "ppc" doens't do anything fancy that other archs don't do too, please
> > > stop with your "ppc specific" thing all over the place.
> >
> > When the only problem reports come from PPC hardware, it sure looks
> > PPC-specific to me.
>
> Bla bla bla bla... can you stop the crackpipe please ?

Maybe you should first pay attention to what I pointed out: that
the problem reports I've seen have ONLY been on PPC systems.

Like the powerbook in $SUBJECT ... people without PPCs are unlikely
to hit such issues, judging by the evidence so far. (Though of course
it'd be possible...)


> >  If such issues get reported on non-PPC hardware
> > (with those unique-to-ppc changes to PCI enumeration) then I'll stop
> > thinking of it as PPC-specific.  Until then ... ;)


I guess one point to be made is that although x86 gets the most testing
right away, PPC lately isn't far behind. Latent bugs in usb-handoff
logic got surfaced by this patch ... there could be others. I suspect
nobody except x86 users have been running that code much at all.

- Dave

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