On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Oleg Verych wrote: > 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
Sorry, I'm not familiar with that rule. > > > 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? Yes. Or USB hard disk drives. > So, if yes. BIOS knows how to boot from it, right? Wrong. The BIOS knows how to load the kernel, but it knows nothing about the rest of the boot procedure. > Kernel isn't for > itself, right? I don't understand this question. > Thus, i think before (any) rootfs image is ready, use > BIOS. If one is ready use userspace. The kernel cannot use the BIOS; it has to use its own drivers. Reason: As soon as the kernel probes the PCI bus, it takes the USB host controllers away from the BIOS. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
