On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:20:50AM +0200, Niels de Vos wrote: > just hacked a little script together which uses the sysfs-structure > for finding any BlackBerries (well, at least my BB8100). After some > small sanity checks the script disconnects the BlackBerry from > usb-storage using the 'unbind' file.
Thanks Niels! This is an improvement over dropping usb_storage in the module blacklist. > Instead of a script, it would of course also be possible to add a > C/C++-function to libbarry. The logic is pretty straight forward, > however writing it in C/C++ would require quite some more lines ;) For > the adventurous wanting to write this code, please see these notes > about _not_ using libsysfs: > <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt>. Is this the document you meant to link to? I didn't see any mention of libsysfs. > I hope this script helps somebody and explains a bit more how > usb-storage can be kept loaded while using barry. I provide this > script for inclusion in barry as utility, testcase and/or > documentation. Have fun wit it! Do you run this manually, or do you launch it via hal or udev? It would be nice to include this as an optional(?) feature in the binary packages, and have this run automatically. - Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
