On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 05:04:57PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Tom Rini wrote: > > > > Amusingly enough, the change in behavior was caused not by adding code > > > but > > > by removing it. The usb-storage driver in 2.4 went to some trouble to > > > try > > > and maintain the ficticious existences of devices after they had been > > > unplugged. In 2.6 all that was removed, and so now when you unplug a > > > device it just goes away, period. > > > > Ah. How hard would it be to get the 2.6 behavior, if one wanted it? > > You would have to reprogram part of the usb-storage driver. It wouldn't > be a terribly hard job for someone who was already familiar with the > driver. But it would mean you would be running a non-vanilla kernel.
Actually, the 2.4 SCSI core doesn't support hot-unplug very well. So it's
more difficult than just changing usb-storage.
Matt
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