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<title>linux.git/drivers/usb/storage, branch v2.6.34</title>
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<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>USB: Remove last bit of CONFIG_USB_BERRY_CHARGE</title>
<updated>2010-03-19T14:24:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Egger</name>
<email>siccegge@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-10T11:33:11+00:00</published>
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One last bit was missed while removing the USB_BERRY_CHARGE config
option in a8d4211f33a9573f7b1bdcfd9c9c48631d1515ee which gets dropped
by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger &lt;siccegge@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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One last bit was missed while removing the USB_BERRY_CHARGE config
option in a8d4211f33a9573f7b1bdcfd9c9c48631d1515ee which gets dropped
by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger &lt;siccegge@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>USB: unusual_devs.h: Fix capacity for SL11R-IDE 2.6c</title>
<updated>2010-03-19T14:24:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ondrej Zary</name>
<email>linux@rainbow-software.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-27T21:56:28+00:00</published>
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SL11R-IDE 2.6c (at least) reports wrong capacity (one sector more).
Reading that last sector causes the device not to work anymore (and looks
like HAL or something does that automatically after plugging in):
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Device not ready
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense Key : 0x2 [current]
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 04 a8 b5 70 00 00 01 00

Add unusual_devs entry to fix the capacity.

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary &lt;linux@rainbow-software.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Phil Dibowitz &lt;phil@ipom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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SL11R-IDE 2.6c (at least) reports wrong capacity (one sector more).
Reading that last sector causes the device not to work anymore (and looks
like HAL or something does that automatically after plugging in):
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Device not ready
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense Key : 0x2 [current]
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 04 a8 b5 70 00 00 01 00

Add unusual_devs entry to fix the capacity.

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary &lt;linux@rainbow-software.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Phil Dibowitz &lt;phil@ipom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>USB: storage: onetouch: unnecessary GFP_ATOMIC</title>
<updated>2010-03-02T22:55:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Neukum</name>
<email>oliver@neukum.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-20T01:03:19+00:00</published>
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No need to use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate buffers.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum &lt;neukum@b1-systems.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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No need to use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate buffers.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum &lt;neukum@b1-systems.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>USB: storage: fix misplaced parenthesis</title>
<updated>2010-03-02T22:55:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roel Kluin</name>
<email>roel.kluin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-17T10:50:26+00:00</published>
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Due to a misplaced parenthesis the usbat_write_block() return value was not
stored, but a boolean. USB_STOR_TRANSPORT_NO_SENSE and USB_STOR_TRANSPORT_ERROR
were returned as USB_STOR_TRANSPORT_FAILED.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin &lt;roel.kluin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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Due to a misplaced parenthesis the usbat_write_block() return value was not
stored, but a boolean. USB_STOR_TRANSPORT_NO_SENSE and USB_STOR_TRANSPORT_ERROR
were returned as USB_STOR_TRANSPORT_FAILED.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin &lt;roel.kluin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>usb-storage: use max_hw_sectors instead of max_sectors</title>
<updated>2010-03-02T22:55:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Stern</name>
<email>stern@rowland.harvard.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-26T16:49:39+00:00</published>
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This patch (as1347) makes some adjustments to the way usb-storage
handles the request-queue parameters.

USB host controllers are able to handle arbitrarily long
scatter-gather lists, since they are limited only by main memory and
not by the controller hardware.  Hence the sg_tablesize field in the
host template can be increased to the maximum value.

Drivers like usb-storage aren't supposed to touch the queue's
max_sectors parameter; instead they are supposed to use the
max_hw_sectors value.  Accordingly, the patch replaces calls of
queue_max_sectors() with calls of queue_max_hw_sectors().  Oddly
enough, the blk_queue_max_sectors() routine is nevertheless still
appropriate.

The existing code imposes a limit of SCSI_DEFAULT_MAX_SECTORS (1024)
on the values accepted by the max_sectors attribute file.  There's no
reason not to accept larger values, so the limit is removed.  (It
would be nice to change the file's name to max_hw_sectors, but the old
name is already a well-established API.)

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
CC: Matthew Dharm &lt;mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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This patch (as1347) makes some adjustments to the way usb-storage
handles the request-queue parameters.

USB host controllers are able to handle arbitrarily long
scatter-gather lists, since they are limited only by main memory and
not by the controller hardware.  Hence the sg_tablesize field in the
host template can be increased to the maximum value.

Drivers like usb-storage aren't supposed to touch the queue's
max_sectors parameter; instead they are supposed to use the
max_hw_sectors value.  Accordingly, the patch replaces calls of
queue_max_sectors() with calls of queue_max_hw_sectors().  Oddly
enough, the blk_queue_max_sectors() routine is nevertheless still
appropriate.

The existing code imposes a limit of SCSI_DEFAULT_MAX_SECTORS (1024)
on the values accepted by the max_sectors attribute file.  There's no
reason not to accept larger values, so the limit is removed.  (It
would be nice to change the file's name to max_hw_sectors, but the old
name is already a well-established API.)

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
CC: Matthew Dharm &lt;mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>USB: unusual_devs: Add support for multiple Option 3G sticks</title>
<updated>2010-03-02T22:54:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Dumon</name>
<email>j.dumon@option.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-05T14:53:26+00:00</published>
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Enable the SD-Card interface on multiple Option 3G sticks.
The unusual_devs.h entry is necessary because the device descriptor is
vendor-specific. That prevents usb-storage from binding to it as an interface
driver.

Signed-off-by: Jan Dumon &lt;j.dumon@option.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Phil Dibowitz &lt;phil@ipom.com&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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Enable the SD-Card interface on multiple Option 3G sticks.
The unusual_devs.h entry is necessary because the device descriptor is
vendor-specific. That prevents usb-storage from binding to it as an interface
driver.

Signed-off-by: Jan Dumon &lt;j.dumon@option.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Phil Dibowitz &lt;phil@ipom.com&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>USB: storage: Never reset devices that will morph to an old mode</title>
<updated>2010-03-02T22:53:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Neukum</name>
<email>oliver@neukum.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-18T11:14:21+00:00</published>
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Some devices must be switched to a new mode to fully use them.
A reset would make them revert to the old mode. Therefore a reset
must not be used for error handling with such devices.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum &lt;oliver@neukum.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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Some devices must be switched to a new mode to fully use them.
A reset would make them revert to the old mode. Therefore a reset
must not be used for error handling with such devices.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum &lt;oliver@neukum.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block</title>
<updated>2010-03-01T17:00:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-01T17:00:29+00:00</published>
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* 'for-2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (38 commits)
  block: don't access jiffies when initialising io_context
  cfq: remove 8 bytes of padding from cfq_rb_root on 64 bit builds
  block: fix for "Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits"
  cfq-iosched: quantum check tweak
  blktrace: perform cleanup after setup error
  blkdev: fix merge_bvec_fn return value checks
  cfq-iosched: requests "in flight" vs "in driver" clarification
  cciss: Fix problem with scatter gather elements in the scsi half of the driver
  cciss: eliminate unnecessary pointer use in cciss scsi code
  cciss: do not use void pointer for scsi hba data
  cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block mapping code
  cciss: fix scatter gather chain block dma direction kludge
  cciss: simplify scatter gather code
  cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block allocation and freeing
  cciss: detect bad alignment of scsi commands at build time
  cciss: clarify command list padding calculation
  cfq-iosched: rethink seeky detection for SSDs
  cfq-iosched: rework seeky detection
  block: remove padding from io_context on 64bit builds
  block: Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits
  ...
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* 'for-2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (38 commits)
  block: don't access jiffies when initialising io_context
  cfq: remove 8 bytes of padding from cfq_rb_root on 64 bit builds
  block: fix for "Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits"
  cfq-iosched: quantum check tweak
  blktrace: perform cleanup after setup error
  blkdev: fix merge_bvec_fn return value checks
  cfq-iosched: requests "in flight" vs "in driver" clarification
  cciss: Fix problem with scatter gather elements in the scsi half of the driver
  cciss: eliminate unnecessary pointer use in cciss scsi code
  cciss: do not use void pointer for scsi hba data
  cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block mapping code
  cciss: fix scatter gather chain block dma direction kludge
  cciss: simplify scatter gather code
  cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block allocation and freeing
  cciss: detect bad alignment of scsi commands at build time
  cciss: clarify command list padding calculation
  cfq-iosched: rethink seeky detection for SSDs
  cfq-iosched: rework seeky detection
  block: remove padding from io_context on 64bit builds
  block: Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Lower USB storage settling delay to something more reasonable</title>
<updated>2010-02-26T18:03:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2010-02-26T18:03:22+00:00</published>
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The five-second delay can be rather annoying, and makes the system
appear much less responsive when you connect a USB drive.

It's also not entirely clear that it is needed - the settling delay has
at least historically been an issue on some Apple iPods, for example,
and some devices have been reported to need even more than the old 5s
delay.

But before we penalize them all, let's see how bad it really is.  Some
of the reasons for long delays seem to be actual historical kernel bugs
that should probably never have been papered over with a delay in the
first place (there's a Ubuntu bug report for 2.6.20 about a NULL pointer
dereference unless 'delay_use' is 8 or more, for example).

It also looks like some distros have already shipped with delay_use=0,
so the five second default may well be totally historical.

In other words: "Let's see if anybody screams".

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The five-second delay can be rather annoying, and makes the system
appear much less responsive when you connect a USB drive.

It's also not entirely clear that it is needed - the settling delay has
at least historically been an issue on some Apple iPods, for example,
and some devices have been reported to need even more than the old 5s
delay.

But before we penalize them all, let's see how bad it really is.  Some
of the reasons for long delays seem to be actual historical kernel bugs
that should probably never have been papered over with a delay in the
first place (there's a Ubuntu bug report for 2.6.20 about a NULL pointer
dereference unless 'delay_use' is 8 or more, for example).

It also looks like some distros have already shipped with delay_use=0,
so the five second default may well be totally historical.

In other words: "Let's see if anybody screams".

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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