[wellylug] USB flash drive woes with 2.6.9

[Pete Black]

Exactly - if Linus and the maintainers aren't doing quality control, and 
the distro's aren't doing it, then it's left up to the user.

Hell, every time I install a distro I run into at least one problem, 
omission or incompatibility which requires a kernel recompile. I dont 
mind doing this - I actually take a perverse pleasure in fixing obscure 
problems, but I can't imagine the majority of people feel it is 'their 
job' to know enough about the kernel to make it work stably and support 
their hardware.

Ah well, maybe in 2.6.10 everything will be better....

>On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 at 17:42:09 +1300, Pete Black wrote:
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>>I guess the Debian maintainers must not be testing as much as they used to.
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>I don't know about Debian maintainers, but Linus has never been one
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>"testing? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up it is perfect."
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>-- Linus Torvalds 
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