Bug#284952: The USB block device should be disabled

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:13:57PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 04:59:04AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:56:51PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:03:51PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 12:33:48PM +0100, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > > > > The USB block device is known to be experimental and buggy.
> > > > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB=m should be set to 'n'.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Since the ub modules takes preference of the old, though working
> > > > > usb-storage, hotplug loads ub.  Blacklisting ub doesn't help, loading
> > > > > usb-storage doesn't work either.
> > > > > I really would like for UB to be disable until proven reasonably stable.
> > > > 
> > > > Can someone merge this bug with #283852, plz? I'm unsure which of them
> > > > to reassign.
> > 
> > I wonder about this, would it not be enough to blacklist the UB generated
> > modules in hotplug and/or discover ? 
> 
> According to Paul van Tilburg, in Bug#284952 this does not help.
> Though he didn't expand on why.

Ah, i also have some second-thoughts about this, since we cannot know exactly
how the user is loading the modules. I will disable it in the ppc 2.6.9/2.6.10
kernels.

Friendly,

Sven Luther