Bug#283852: not compiling ub.ko? breaks usb-storage
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guido Guenther" <agx@debian.org>
To: "Frank Lichtenheld" <djpig@debian.org>; <283852@bugs.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 10:58 PM
Subject: Bug#283852: not compiling ub.ko? breaks usb-storage
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:07:19PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> > Package: kernel-source-2.6.9
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > I don't know if this affects all systems but according to google
> > I'm at least not the only one. And a little rant on IRC immediatly
> > yield some "/me too" results.
> >
> > Since 2.6.9 hotplug tries to use the ub module to handle devices
previously
> > handled by usb-storage (e.g. memory sticks). This has at least two
drawbacks:
> > At least if using a static /dev this fails miserably since the necessary
> > devices aren't there by default. And according to the mails I found on
google
> > it is slower than usb-storage, too. Since the only solution seems to be
to
> > not compile ub.ko at all (simply unloading it and loading usb-storage
doesn't
> > work) I would vote for not compiling it by default if there aren't any
good
> > reasons against it. We were fine without it before ;)
> Would blacklisting it in hotplug be a solution? I had only trouble with
> ub so far on a power book.
> -- Guido
>
>
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