RFE: enable uas in 3.15 kernels

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 05/01/2014 05:22 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I would like to suggest to enable uas in the 3.15 kernel:
>> CONFIG_USB_UAS=m
>>
>> For all platforms. Usb Attached Scsi is a standard, much improved
>> usb storage protocol allowing the use of NCQ over usb, and slowly
>> more devices are hitting the market supporting it.
>>
>> Besides being a whole lot faster, I also put 1.5 months of full-time
>> work in getting it into shape and getting it of the CONFIG_BROKEN
>> list upstream, which has now all finally landed.
> 
> OK, so right now we actually enable it for normal rawhide kernels that
> have the debug options set.  Originally we enabled it everywhere, and
> that led to a number of machines having issues with the driver causing
> hangs and crashes.  We worked out a compromise to leave it enabled in
> debug builds until it was stable.
> 
> I'm guessing you feel it's stable now.  Would you be willing to handle
> bugs if they come in?

Yes (I'm also the upstream maintainer of it).

Regards,

Hans