On Wednesday 15 February 2006 3:43 pm, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > Are you quite certain about that? This is not
> > the case for SCSI disks, but for USB, maybe it
> > can provide sufficient information to the
> > kernel about state changes without having to do
> > a full rescan. If that is the case, and the
> > hardware is erroneously reporting that all
Hardware is CORRECTLY reporting electrical disconnects,
but Philip is wanting Linux to ignore those reports.
> > devices were disconnected and reconnected after
> > an ACPI suspend to disk, then such hardware is
> > broken and the kernel should be patched to work
> > around it.
>
> No patch was attached...
No patch possible. Reading the other messages in that
thread, Philip is advocating Linux ignore the USB spec.
(Which is what _he_ appears to have been doing...)
What he has to do is more than submit a patch. He first
needs to lobby the USB-IF to change the USB spec, and
get every peripheral vendor to stop shipping USB devices
and instead switch over to "Philip-USB". Then get all
the billions of USB peripherals to go into the recycle
bin and be replaced with products conforming to his
new variant. It all seems highly unlikely. ;)
But yes, you're right ... if he's serious about
changing all that stuff, he also needs stop being a
member of the "never submitted a USB patch" club.
Ideally, starting with small things.
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