linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Missing usb_find

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Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:24:26 +0100
From:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	"Wilco Beekhuizen" <wilcobeekhuizen@...il.com>,
	"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Missing usb_find_device symbol from usb.c

Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008 12:52:45 schrieb Pekka Enberg:
> Hi Oliver,
> 
> On Jan 24, 2008 1:49 PM, Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org> wrote:
> > A quick glance through the files at sourceforge indicates that this
> > device use a file transfer protocol. Mapping this to a simple device
> > is hard. A fs is quite natural a representation of that.
> 
> Sure but the filesystems in fs/ are general purpose and they can be
> mounted on top of any block device (except for the in-memory ones like

nfs, cifs, jffs, ...

> sysfs). Furthermore, the problem with iriverfs is that it assumes that
> there can be only one device plugged to the host. What we want is
> something like
> 
>   $ mount -t iriverfs /dev/iriver0 /mnt/media
> 
> Which can be accomplished with an USB driver in driver/usb/ that
> registers the special iriverfs.

And what happens if you do
mount -t vfat /dev/iriver0 /mnt/media ?

	Regards
		Oliver
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