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

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Message-ID: <4B2A0AE5.2080006@reactivated.net>
Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:41:41 +0000
From:	Daniel Drake <dan@...ctivated.net>
To:	Josua Dietze <digidietze@...isberghof.de>
CC:	Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@...glemail.com>,
	usb-storage@...ts.one-eyed-alien.net, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stefan Seyfried <seife@...airon.com>
Subject: Re: [usb-storage] [PATCH] move eject code from zd1211rw to  usb-storage

El 15/12/09 12:31, Josua Dietze escribió:
> 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.

When I originally wrote this code this wasn't as easy as you might think 
- the virtual CD device seems to be very quirky, and utterly confused 
Linux to the point where it didn't even create a device node. Maybe 
linux is more flexible these days though.

Daniel
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