Re: RFE: enable uas in 3.15 kernels

Hi, On 05/01/2014 05:22 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I would like to suggest to enable uas in the 3.15 kernel: >> CONFIG_USB_UAS=m >> >> For all platforms. Usb Attached Scsi is a standard, much improved >> usb storage protocol allowing the use of NCQ over usb, and slowly >> more devices are hitting the market supporting it. >> >> Besides being a whole lot faster, I also put 1.5 months of full-time >> work in getting it into shape and getting it of the CONFIG_BROKEN >> list upstream, which has now all finally landed. > > OK, so right now we actually enable it for normal rawhide kernels that > have the debug options set. Originally we enabled it everywhere, and > that led to a number of machines having issues with the driver causing > hangs and crashes. We worked out a compromise to leave it enabled in > debug builds until it was stable. > > I'm guessing you feel it's stable now. Would you be willing to handle > bugs if they come in? Yes (I'm also the upstream maintainer of it).