It's not entirely trivial to back-port the USB support to 1.5.3 due to other
kernel changes.

    -- Lennart

Joshua Coombs wrote:

> Is there any chance of getting current's USB snapshot mfc'd to 1.5 in the
> releativly near future?  I'm working on a netbooted Compaq iPaq IA-1, which
> leaves me with USB ethernet as my only means of access, and have it almost
> 100% with 1.5.3-RC1, but I still have to use a current kernel due to flaws
> still present in USB under 1.5.3-RC1.
>
> I'm not subscribed so if you can keep me in the cc list, great, if not I'll
> be trolling the archives.
>
> Joshua Coombs
> jcoombs@gwi.net