#7113 NORM Update.: Enable modular USB in our kernels.

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#7113: Enable modular USB in our kernels.
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  Reporter:  cjb     |       Owner:  dsaxena         
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  closed          
  Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  Update.2 (8.2.0)
 Component:  kernel  |     Version:  Update.1        
Resolution:  fixed   |    Keywords:  Update8.2       
  Verified:  0       |    Blocking:                  
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Comment(by dilinger):

 Replying to [comment:14 dsaxena]:
 >
 > This change will only appear on testing kernels and since the latest
 olpcrd code is already doing a modprobe, this shouldn't impact many
 people. Anyone updating from a stable .22 to .26 will have to rebuild an
 initrd anyways. Anyone updating from a kernel before this commit to a new
 one will have to do so too, but I imagine that to be smaller number of
 users who are developer types anyways and can probably do this to module
 in there. (If not, send them my way...)
 >


 Not true.  I've done a number of upgrades from 2.6.22 to 2.6.2[56] without
 ever regenerating my initrd.

 This is going to break things for people in unexpected ways ("hey, i
 upgraded the kernel rpm to test $foo and now the machine no longer boots
 for me!"), and the benefits are not clear to me (we're going to _possibly_
 save some suspend/resume time by disabling functionality?   ).

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