linux-kernel - Re: Memory stick reader Ricoh R5C592 supported?

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Message-ID: <20070302122130.2004419d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:21:30 +0000
From:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@...eus.cx>
Cc:	Werner LEMBERG <wl@....org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Memory stick reader Ricoh R5C592 supported?

> Memory stick is completely unsupported. We haven't got any specs for neither the
> the host controllers or the protocol. So I would guess it would be quite some
> time before memorystick is supported directly by Linux.

Don't hold your breath either. The reverse engineering work done a long
time ago on some of the memory sticks suggests the "security" (DRM)
features are actually done in software by the driver so I doubt we'll see
specs soon.

Alan
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