[Karmic] SRU: Disable CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:00:44PM +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
> SRU Justification:
> 
> Impact: We were talked into enable that for Karmic by users with
> broken applications without realizing the side-effect of breaking
> udev (as it implicitely changes event behavior).

Impact: With this option enabled firmware for USB connected devices may
fail to load regressing functionality for these devices.  The option
was only enabled to fix already broken applications which use this long
deprecated filesystem; they probabaly should be directed to Hardy instead.

> Fix: Revert back to not have this option enabled. It is deprecated
> anyways and applications need to be fixed sooner than later.
> 
> -Stefan
> 
> From 8214b4a6265c27289e7c4166357a95faeb1ed7aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:50:53 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] UBUNTU: [Config] Disable CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/488274
> 
> This option is incompatible with the udev in karmic and lucid, leading
> to failure to load firmware files for various pieces of USB kit. It is
> also now deprecated and going away very shortly. We should therefore
> re-disable it. More details are in the thread below:
> 
>     http://markmail.org/message/3mw5yw465qmxgnwp
> 
> Although older versions of Virtualbox and VMWare needed it we do not
> believe that current versions use it.
> 
> This reverts the change done requested for Karmic by the following
> bug report:
> 
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417748
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
> ---
>  debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu b/debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu
> index c6bbae9..462c1c1 100644
> --- a/debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu
> +++ b/debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu
> @@ -3783,7 +3783,7 @@ CONFIG_USB_CYPRESS_CY7C63=m
>  CONFIG_USB_CYTHERM=m
>  CONFIG_USB_DABUSB=m
>  # CONFIG_USB_DEBUG is not set
> -CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
> +# CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS is not set
>  # CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS is not set
>  CONFIG_USB_DSBR=m
>  CONFIG_USB_DUMMY_HCD=m

Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>

-apw