I think I might be able to guess why you feel this way but could you expand on your opinion?
I'm looking at it from an advanced-user/non-developer stand point, I have a piece of hardware I need to make work. I don't know enough to contribute to the code but I can figure out enough to make it work within the framework of what the developer's have built. I don't think the type of user who says, "How do I use usb?" really poses a problem since they probably have no idea what a kernel header file even is. However there are dangerous users like myself, who know just enough to reverse engineer well documented kernel code. ;) So are users like myself doing a service by sorting out previously unknown hardware and reporting the results or are we doing a disservice? I admit I don't know the planning framework in usb-storage, is there an attempt to be device agnostic or is the variability in products going to an ability to add new devices as they show up? I'm not trying to start any flame war here I really do want to know so that I don't unintentionally undermine the developers efforts. Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't think we should be encouraging people to add the the unusual device list. On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I believe the faq and guide need a bit of expansion. I finally stumbled onto what >has to be done regarding many usb-storage devices on the working devices list. >Namely, you probably will have to add an entry to unusual_devs.h in the usb-storage >module code, then recompile and reinstall the module. I had to do this for a USB HD >I unwisely purchased without checking the list. The things that need to be included >in the new entry are the vendor and device id's, the minor and major device revision >numbers [I used 0x0001 and 0xffff - ie every possible one], give names for the driver >to post, then you have to define protocols and flags - that's the hard part since if >you know as little as I do, you have to just empirically figure them out. Look for >examples on the working devices list by searching for working usb-storage devices. >The protocol options are in usb.c, the flag options are in usb.h > CLIP > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | | | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
