RFE: enable uas in 3.15 kernels

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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).

Awesome.  I'll enable it when I do the next rawhide build.

josh