On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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> 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).
Awesome. I'll enable it when I do the next rawhide build.
josh