Comment 362 for bug 88746

Toby Dickenson <email address hidden> writes:
> A note for those who are dissatisfied with the progress on this bug.....
> It seems likely that these usb problems could actually be caused by
> numerous different glitches in different usb controllers or devices.

No, that's not the issue. The problem is that a deliberate choice was
made to wreck lots of people's USB controllers on the basis that we
weren't important enough to care about.

> Don't expect one single fix to address all these problems
> simultaneously;

NetBSD and FreeBSD deal with these controllers just fine. I happen to
be unfortunate enough to want to run Ubuntu however.

I want to emphasize: this is not some sort of problem that is poorly
understood and caused by buggy hardware. It is well understood and
being ignored.

> It is the same situation seen on the release of windows vista, where the
> minor differences between xp and vista exposed similar device bugs which
> sent vendors scurrying to produce driver updates.

That's not even a remotely apt analogy. Among other things, this bug
has been around since before the release of Vista and no one intends
to fix it.

Perry
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Perry E. Metzger <email address hidden>