On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:44:08PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> There is a problem in 2.6 with the mount options for usbfs/usbdevfs,
> they are ignored.  This is becuase the "remount" function isn't
> extended to re-parse the options and update the nodes.  I have a patch
> for this, but while writing it I noticed that while usbfs and usbdevfs
> are different filesystems, they share the same options (devmode,
> devuid, listuid, etc).  So having usbfs mounted with one set of
> options and usbdevfs with another isn't possible.  Is it time to just
> get rid of usbdevfs?  If not, should the mount options apply to both
> filesystems the same or should the options be seperated into usbfs and
> usbdevfs options?  I wanted to discuss a bit before submitting the
> patch.

I will delete the usbdevfs stuff when 2.7 opens up.  We have to keep
that file system name until then, due to backwards compatibility issues.

thanks,

greg k-h


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