Comment 35 for bug 218760

David, please take a chill pill. I agree the situation is a little ridiculous, but it's not Alan Stern's fault. These people (almost certainly volunteers) are responsible for what goes into the mainline linux kernel, not what ubuntu ships, and it's understandable that they don't want to debug ubuntu's particular set of kernel patches and backports any more than we do, especially since the ubuntu people are the ones who are supposed to be responsive to bug reports against their distribution. And whether or not we agree with the linux-usb people, we're not going to get more help with this problem by antagonizing them. Since we're not paying anyone for support (I'm not, anyway) we're not really in a position to demand better service.