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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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Subject: Re: starting with 2.7
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On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:34:44PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> <--  snip  -->
> config BLK_DEV_UB
>         tristate "Low Performance USB Block driver"
>         depends on USB
>         help
>           This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices
>           such as flash keys.
> 
>           If unsure, say N.
> <--  snip  -->
> Call me naive, but at least for me it wouldn't have been obvious that 
> this option cripples the usb-storage driver.
> The warning that this option cripples the usb-storage driver was added 
> after people who accidentially enabled this option ("it can't harm") 
> in 2.6.9 swamped the USB maintainers with bug reports about problems 
> with their storage devices.

The "it can't harm" assumption was flawed. Minimal configs are best for
a reason. Inappropriate options turned on can and always will be able
to take down your box and/or render some devices inoperable.

-- wli