#7303 BLOC 8.2.0 (: Libertas disconnects on resume with testing/master kernels.

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#7303: Libertas disconnects on resume with testing/master kernels.
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   Reporter:  cjb       |       Owner:  jcardona            
       Type:  defect    |      Status:  reopened            
   Priority:  blocker   |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
  Component:  wireless  |     Version:  Update.1            
 Resolution:            |    Keywords:  8.2.0:?             
Next_action:  package   |    Verified:  0                   
  Blockedby:            |    Blocking:  7383, 7393          
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Comment(by dsaxena):

 Replying to [comment:28 dsd]:
 > Here's the commit in question:
 >
 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9214d1d80c19016172e685ce7bde0ea757c49097
 > {{{
 > USB: enable USB-PERSIST by default
 > Alan Stern [Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:04:13 +0000 (11:04 -0500)]
 > This patch (as1052) enables USB-PERSIST for all devices by default.
 > The user won't have to remember to enable it explicitly for devices
 > containing mounted filesystems.
 >
 > Eventually userspace tools like hal may be able to set the persist
 > attribute automatically when a filesystem is mounted on a USB device.
 > When that time comes this patch can be reverted, if people think it
 > matters.
 >
 > This approach has the advantage of giving the user the ability to turn
 > off USB-PERSIST for devices with mounted filesystems, rather than
 > making the kernel always assume it should be on.
 > }}}
 >
 > How do we handle the mounted-filesystems-on-suspend case at the moment?
 Reading the last few paragraphs of Documentation/usb/persist.txt is a bit
 scary.

 Looking at our stable kernel, we have CONFIG_USB_PERSIST enabled, but
 we're not writing 1 to the file which means the device disappears and then
 reappears. I think bringing in this patch will make that go away. The user
 can shoot him/herself in the foot by replacing it with an identical device
 but I think we just need to explicitly tell people not to remove media
 while suspended.

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