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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/usb/persist.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/persist.txt b/Documentation/usb/persist.txt index bea58dbd30fe..d56cb1a11550 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/persist.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/persist.txt @@ -136,10 +136,10 @@ aren't guaranteed to be 100% accurate. If you replace one USB device with another of the same type (same manufacturer, same IDs, and so on) there's an excellent chance the -kernel won't detect the change. Serial numbers and other strings are -not compared. In many cases it wouldn't help if they were, because -manufacturers frequently omit serial numbers entirely in their -devices. +kernel won't detect the change. The serial number string and other +descriptors are compared with the kernel's stored values, but this +might not help since manufacturers frequently omit serial numbers +entirely in their devices. Furthermore it's quite possible to leave a USB device exactly the same while changing its media. If you replace the flash memory card in a |