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|> These objections don't really kill mass storage gadget as something to |> consider, but sharing a filesystem at the network layer just doesn't |> have these problems and acts like we are used to in normal Linux usage. |> ~ It's annoying that basically Windows will drive us to decide which way |> to jump or if to implement both, but there we are. | | Sometimes it's quite inspiring to look to the ways others cope with the issue. | Nokia for instance is popping up a requester asking whether you want to have | mass storage profile or [fill in any conflicting mode here], then when you | select "mass storage device" it even disconnects GSM and blocks UI (I've been | told) - I'd guess they have the same kind of problems and solved them by | doing what we would call "init 1". And hey, we can do same - no? | Not cute, but very clean and simple. Probably when you want mass storage, you | have to live with solutions like this. Yes init 1 sounds like the kind of medicine that matches the problem, but actually doing telinit 1 when you want to share storage is pretty harsh. I know it's a bit unfair but imagine if that was how things were on a Linux laptop. I agree it's useful to compare with what others do but not to the point of getting trapped in not being able to consider a novel solution because "it's not what the others are doing". There's an alternative network-based stack possible which looks like ~ - Ethernet over USB | Wifi | Bluetooth ~ - NetworkManager ~ - Linux uPnP (http://upnp.sourceforge.net/) | avahi or similar ~ - cut down Samba that should deliver almost the same behaviour on Windows, in terms of plugging it in / connecting to wireless and seeing a new share available. This would perfectly happily allow all file management or streaming without requiring unmounts or killing X. But nobody is working on it, and mass storage gadget is relatively easy to enable. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhGnhIACgkQOjLpvpq7dMoyjgCfbfHfI5RJYHHrMKr1mNwvhGK5 uzEAn2sPu+VdTv5ovU+QbRMpPSynTRM2 =4Igj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
