What difference in meaning do you imagine replacing..
"This" with "That" would achieve?
This approach has the advantage of giving the user the ability to turn...
off USB-PERSIST for devices with mounted filesystems, rather than
making the kernel always assume it should be on.
What I meant (it probably wasn't very clear from the text) was that the
approach of leaving USB-PERSIST controlled by the power/persist
attribute and merely altering the attribute's default value is better
than having the kernel unilaterally and unconditionally turn
USB-PERSIST on for every device holding a mounted filesystem. In other
words, the approach taken by the patch is better than the approach
suggested by Linus Torvalds.
Alan Stern