Package: linux-latest-2.6 Severity: wishlist On portable devices (laptops, PDAs) with memory card readers, it's convenient to use a memory card for a filesystem like /home, or a swap partition. But without USB_PERSIST, one can't suspend and resume these machines, because the memory card's device will change. Enabling USB_PERSIST in the "standard" Debian kernels would fix this.
Although USB_PERSIST is described as dangerous, I argue that it really isn't very: "Note that even when CONFIG_USB_PERSIST is set, the "persist" feature will be applied only to those devices for which it is enabled. You can enable the feature by doing (as root): echo 1 >/sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/persist" (source: Documentation/usb/persist.txt) -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (400, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]