Matthew Dharm wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:35:56AM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:33:28AM -0800, Matthew Dharm wrote: >>> Someone remind me again why we bother masking out the fake CD-ROM in these >>> devices? >>> >> It's confusing to users, and completely useless -- it's added by the >> manufacturer because Another OS can only autorun from a cdrom, which >> they need to do to be able to install drivers. > > Beyond being confusing to users, does it cause any *problems*? > > I'm hesitant to add code which doesn't actually *fix* anything. >
Well it fixes the very annoying fact that when you plug one of these in and are using a hal enabled desktop first a filemanager window with your files pops up and then when you want to navigate to the correct dir a filemanger window with autorun.inf and other stuff pops up. But I believe that just adding prove only a single lun flag entry for these is wrong. I would like to advocate a special U3 flag and a mod param / sysfs attribute for the usb-massstorage driver which allows one to configure the behaviour. Some people have come up with all kind of ingenious uses for the cdrom emulation. Currently there are only windows programs to configure the cdrom emulation, but I have a student of mine working on reverse engineering the necessary protocols and creating a libusb based "driver" to control it from Linux. Still I believe that some kernel support is needed to avoid the _very_ annoying popping up of the second useless lun, but this should be a special U3 flag so that it can be configured. Also note that U3 is not sandisk only, there is an U3 consortium and others may very well come with U3 disks in the future too. Regards, Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
