[wellylug] USB flash drive woes with 2.6.9

[Pete Black]

The ub driver in 2.6.9 is a piece of shit (pardon the language) it 
should never have gone into the kernel, hard locks my machine when a USB 
device is removed,  and fills my logs with spurious error messages.

Recompile your kernel sans ub driver (in block devices->low speed usb 
device support) if you want to stay sane when dealing with USB peripherals.

Nobody who packaged 2.6.9 with this driver included can have done any 
testing at all with it, since it is pretty much completely broken on a 
wide range of systems.
I guess the Debian maintainers must not be testing as much as they used to.


>Here's my dmesg output running 2.6.9 on Ubutu Hoary:
>(It's a DSE usb watch :-))
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>usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
>SCSI subsystem initialized
>Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
>scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
>  Vendor:           Model:                   Rev: 1.89
>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>USB Mass Storage device found at 2
>usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
>USB Mass Storage support registered.
>SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
>sda: Write Protect is off
>sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
>sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
>Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
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