On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 10:22:58AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> Those email addresse in unusual_devs.h are _not_ credits.  (The credit 
> belongs to the person who writes and submits the patch, not the person 
> who owns the hardware and reports the problem.)

I think, "code generated from documentation" rule, can be applied here.
CS theory, but i'm not a CS specialist ;-E

> > I wish some day all this static useless id-ification will went to
> > userspace.
> 
> I do too.  But there are difficulties with doing it.  Just as one example,
> consider trying to boot from a USB pendrive.  At that point there _is_ no
> userspace available to provide the blacklist entries!

Do you mean usb flash drives?

So, if yes. BIOS knows how to boot from it, right? Kernel isn't for
itself, right? Thus, i think before (any) rootfs image is ready, use
BIOS. If one is ready use userspace.

--[not for further discussion, just note]--

I wanted (well, still want) to implement management char device for
firmwares, Ids, and the like.

I'm still looking forward it, as a way to merge two different worlds:
sysops and kernel hackers. Devfs vs. udev shows all problems between
two. Greg is doing OK, but he is longly on many kernel parts. I just
submitted ez430 ids for ti_usb serial driver, and i see what that
loneliness rusults in (just one example i saw is 12 pages of
usb-serial.c:usb_serial_probe() with all that "horrible hacks" );

> Alan Stern
> 
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