[Karmic] SRU: Disable CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Wed Dec 16 11:00:44 UTC 2009


SRU Justification:

Impact: We were talked into enable that for Karmic by users with
broken applications without realizing the side-effect of breaking
udev (as it implicitely changes event behavior).

Fix: Revert back to not have this option enabled. It is deprecated
anyways and applications need to be fixed sooner than later.

-Stefan

>From 8214b4a6265c27289e7c4166357a95faeb1ed7aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:50:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] UBUNTU: [Config] Disable CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/488274

This option is incompatible with the udev in karmic and lucid, leading
to failure to load firmware files for various pieces of USB kit. It is
also now deprecated and going away very shortly. We should therefore
re-disable it. More details are in the thread below:

    http://markmail.org/message/3mw5yw465qmxgnwp

Although older versions of Virtualbox and VMWare needed it we do not
believe that current versions use it.

This reverts the change done requested for Karmic by the following
bug report:

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417748

Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
---
 debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu b/debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu
index c6bbae9..462c1c1 100644
--- a/debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu
+++ b/debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu
@@ -3783,7 +3783,7 @@ CONFIG_USB_CYPRESS_CY7C63=m
 CONFIG_USB_CYTHERM=m
 CONFIG_USB_DABUSB=m
 # CONFIG_USB_DEBUG is not set
-CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
+# CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS is not set
 # CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS is not set
 CONFIG_USB_DSBR=m
 CONFIG_USB_DUMMY_HCD=m
-- 
1.6.3.3





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