On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 03:26:19PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 11 May 2007, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Can you suggest a better way of packaging it to help support the distros? > > > I'm perfectly willing to change the way USB-persist gets enabled, to > > > insure that people don't turn it on unless they really mean to. > > > > Is there any way to turn it on at run-time? That would be better for > > everyone involved so that the feature will always be present and no > > rebuilding of kernels is needed. > > Ha! When I first started working on this stuff, it was controlled by a > module parameter. Dave Brownell objected then because there was no way > for distros to turn it off!
Well, as long as we make it so that root access is required to turn it on, and we spit out some nasty meesage to the kernel log when it is disabled, I don't mind. > It could be controlled by both a Kconfig option and a writable module > parameter. I'm not sure that would satisfy everybody. But maybe there > _is_ no way to satisfy everyone... That sounds reasonable, I don't object to that. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
