Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:25:29 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.34] ehci-hcd: add option to enable 64-bit DMA support |
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 05:15:49PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > > For now, I'd like to not enable this, given the huge risks and no known > > benifit. > > "Huge risks" is likely a bit melodramatic
No it is not. This has the ability to break USB functionality that currently works just fine for a user. That's not acceptable.
And yes, we can fix things after-the-fact with blacklists, but as Tejun so aptly described, it is a major pain to do so, and lots of users just get frustrated and never tell us that problems happen.
thanks,
greg k-h
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