Bug#468213: linux-latest-2.6: please enable USB_PERSIST
Package: linux-latest-2.6
Severity: wishlist
On portable devices (laptops, PDAs) with memory card readers, it's
convenient to use a memory card for a filesystem like /home, or a swap
partition. But without USB_PERSIST, one can't suspend and resume
these machines, because the memory card's device will change.
Enabling USB_PERSIST in the "standard" Debian kernels would fix this.
Although USB_PERSIST is described as dangerous, I argue that it
really isn't very:
"Note that even when CONFIG_USB_PERSIST is set, the "persist" feature
will be applied only to those devices for which it is enabled. You
can enable the feature by doing (as root):
echo 1 >/sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/persist"
(source: Documentation/usb/persist.txt)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (400, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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