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On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:38:26PM +0100, Oskar Senft wrote: > Dear Aleksey, > > thank you for your e-mail! > > >>Is there a special need, that the "drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c" is > >>compiled into the kernel even if USB support is disabled? > > > > Yes, there is. USB handoff is necessary even if USB support is > > disabled completely in kernel. In fact, initially early usb handoff code > > was under pci, but since USB drivers do handoff anyway, it was decided > > to move everything into usb with a goal of merging them together. > > Just search for USB handoff in kernel archives. > > I see ... but as David Brownell already stated on Thu Sep 02 2004 - > 20:07:57 EST: > For backwards compatibility, the early reset should not be the > default. There aren't many systems where it's a problem. > > What happened to that argument? In the year and a half since then, we have changed our mind :) A major distro has shipped for a while with this always enabled with no problems, which has helped with this. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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