On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 11:48:16AM -0400, 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.
Why just certain entries? Why not everything?
It seems inconsistent (and an invitation for a zillion little patches) to
only apply this to a select few devices which Pete happens to have.
Matt
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