linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] move eject code from zd1211rw to usb-storage

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Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:31:13 +0100
From:	Josua Dietze <digidietze@...isberghof.de>
To:	Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@...glemail.com>
CC:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, usb-storage@...ts.one-eyed-alien.net,
	Stefan Seyfried <seife@...airon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move eject code from zd1211rw to usb-storage

Stefan Seyfried schrieb:

> The USB ID claimed by zd1211rw for the fake storage device is
> also in use by other, non-zd1211rw devices (Sphairon Homelink
> 1202). Move the eject of these devices to where it belongs and
> where all the needed infrastructure already exists: usb-storage.


We can do the eject (as other mode switches) in userspace. Previous 
discussions pointed into that direction.

And there is always the question of being able to access the "fake 
CD-ROM" without hacking the kernel.

I'd like to see these devices removed from unusual_devs.h.


Josua Dietze
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