[Karmic] SRU: Disable CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS

[Tim Gardner]

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).
> 
> 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

ACK

-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com