On Saturday 29 April 2006 17:48, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Phil Dibowitz wrote:
> > Tangential question - you're making the decision for the user here, so
> > more so than "Why does Pete want to drive his iPod with ub", why does
> > this make sense for everyone who uses Linux?
>
> Phil, I think you have misunderstood the point of this patch. It doesn't
> make any decisions for the user. Just the opposite.
>
> The way libusual currently works is that every entry in unusual_devs.h is
> automatically directed to usb-storage, not to ub. The patch adds a way to
> specify that a particular entry should be directed according to the user's
> preference, by coding such entries with the UNUSUAL_DEV2 macro instead of
> UNUSUAL_DEV.
>
> Even for such entries, the default is still to direct them to usb-storage.
> (Unless the last field in UNUSUAL_DEV2 is set to USB_US_TYPE_UB, which the
> patch does not do.) Only if the user explicitly requests it will libusual
> switch over to using ub.
>
> > > +#define UNUSUAL_DEV2(id_vendor, id_product, bcdDeviceMin,
> > > bcdDeviceMax, \ + vendorName, productName, useProtocol,
> > > useTransport, \
> > > + initFunction, flags, useType) \
> > > +{ USB_DEVICE_VER(id_vendor, id_product, bcdDeviceMin,bcdDeviceMax), \
> > > + .driver_info = (flags)|((useType)<<24) }
> >
> > UNUSUAL_DEV2?! Ew. How about UNUSUAL_DEV_UB?
>
> I agree that UNUSUAL_DEV2 is not the best name. But UNUSUAL_DEV_UB is
> even worse, because these entries are not automatically directed to ub.
> I'm not sure what a better name might be. USUAL_DEV? That looks rather
> peculiar.
UNUSUAL_DEV_AUTO? (Because it auto-selects the driver)
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Christian Iversen
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