On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:05:59AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Bottom line here is that the kernel panics when removing a USB device > that has filesystems mounted.
s/USB // > I also have a hard time believing that the reason it hasn't been fixed > is because "there isn't an easy fix". I'm under the impression it > hasn't been fixed because either no one cares enough to fix it (using > the workaround as a scapegoat excuse), or because the majority of people > do not use USB-based storage devices. The reason is not the USB stack; the reason (IIRC) is that the FreeBSD VM was written with the default assumption that Devices Never Go Away. A large rewrite, I'm told, will be needed to fix this, and the code is convoluted and tricky. No one finds the situation acceptable; introducing the "scapegoat" word isn't going to win you any support. The problem is not a weekend's worth of work to fix, nor does it have anything to do with avoidance by one particular maintainer, which you apparently had encountered before. mcl _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
