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USB: enable USB-PERSIST by default

This patch (as1052) enables USB-PERSIST for all devices by default.
The user won't have to remember to enable it explicitly for devices
containing mounted filesystems.

Eventually userspace tools like hal may be able to set the persist
attribute automatically when a filesystem is mounted on a USB device.
When that time comes this patch can be reverted, if people think it
matters.

This approach has the advantage of giving the user the ability to turn
off USB-PERSIST for devices with mounted filesystems, rather than
making the kernel always assume it should be on.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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Alan Stern and committed by
Greg Kroah-Hartman
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drivers/usb/core/quirks.c
··· 98 98 udev->autosuspend_disabled = 1; 99 99 #endif 100 100 101 - #ifdef CONFIG_PM 101 + /* For the present, all devices default to USB-PERSIST enabled */ 102 + #if 0 /* was: #ifdef CONFIG_PM */ 102 103 /* Hubs are automatically enabled for USB-PERSIST */ 103 104 if (udev->descriptor.bDeviceClass == USB_CLASS_HUB) 104 105 udev->persist_enabled = 1; 106 + 105 107 #else 106 - /* In the absense of PM, we can safely enable USB-PERSIST 108 + /* In the absence of PM, we can safely enable USB-PERSIST 107 109 * for all devices. It will affect things like hub resets 108 110 * and EMF-related port disables. 109 111 */