Bug#283852: not compiling ub.ko? breaks usb-storage

[Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>]

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 ;)

Gruesse,
	Frank Lichtenheld

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-powerpc
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)