[wellylug] USB flash drive woes with 2.6.9

[Andrew]

Pete Black <pete at marchingcubes.com> writes:

> 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.
>

Fantastic. That worked, thanks. Only just got around to it now,
because of the excitements of the season. 

BTW, I'm using a kernel I compiled myself, so the Debian people are
not at fault. Just me.

Or the kernel developers. 

Yes, I think it was probably the kernel developers' fault. ;-]

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