On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 17:14 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 07:56:09PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 12:46 -0800, Matthew Dharm wrote: > > > (Adding Ben Collins, who put another U3 patch into the system.) > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:40:25PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > > > > David Brown wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:55:09AM -0800, Matthew Dharm wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> This is overly complex, and doesn't really solve anything. The fake > > > > >> CD-ROM > > > > >> is there. Who knows what's on it? If the desktop wants to ignore > > > > >> it, > > > > >> that's fine... but as a transport-oriented driver, usb-storage should > > > > >> cleanly transport the commands as much as possible. > > > > > > > > > > It is also possible to change the data that is on the fake CD-ROM, so > > > > > this > > > > > could conceivably be used for something from Linux as well. I don't > > > > > know > > > > > if anyone has figured out how to change the CD-ROM image from Linux, > > > > > but it > > > > > is certainly a possibility. > > > > > > > > > > > > > I understand, well then someone needs to file an RFE for this against > > > > hal and > > > > we all need to help to get a list of ids of u3 deviced in hal. > > > > > > We should also find out why there is another U3 patch in the kernel. It > > > came in with a patch that referred to some Ubuntu bugs. Ben, can you > > > clarify what bug that was, and what the original report was? > > > > Not sure if that was an Ubuntu bug. Pretty sure that was a stick I had, > > and added to the list to get rid of the cdrom lun. > > I agree with Matt, this should not be done in the kernel. If you don't > like seeing the additional LUN, which is really present in the device, > do something in HAL or your window manager. That kind of "policy" > should not be in the usb-storage driver. > > If anyone has the git id for the current U3 patch, I'll be glad to > revert it.
Makes sense to me. I was only following precedent from other devices already being treated like this. -- Ubuntu : http://www.ubuntu.com/ Linux1394: http://wiki.linux1394.org/ SwissDisk: http://www.swissdisk.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
