On Feb 12, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Michael Neumann wrote:

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> Matthew Dillon wrote:
>>     1.12 has been branched!  I've done a rough nrelease build with  
>> HEAD
>>     but haven't tested that a nrelease build with 1.12 produces  
>> the correct
>>     version information yet.  Other then that it went pretty  
>> smoothly.
>
> What I'd like to see for the release is that it ships with a kernel
> where USB is completely disabled (I mean as an addition to GENERIC).
>
> Otherwise it's just unusable on my laptop :(
> Or is there a boot sysctl to disable USB completely?


Have you tried to boot without any USB devices attached ???
That helps me in some cases.