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

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Message-ID: <20091217182134.GL16426@one-eyed-alien.net>
Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:21:34 -0800
From:	Matthew Dharm <mdharm-kernel@...-eyed-alien.net>
To:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
Cc:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>,
	Josua Dietze <digidietze@...isberghof.de>,
	Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@...glemail.com>,
	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

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 02:02:41PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 16. Dezember 2009 20:52:58 schrieb Matthew Dharm:
> > > > If this is the case, then the only reasonable answer to is to push the
> > > > modeswitch code for both into udev and out of the kernel.  It will take
> > > 
> > > you mean usb_modeswitch, not udev actually.
> > 
> > That is correct; I had mis-typed.  Tho, the actual implementation is udev
> > calling usb_modeswitch and/or eject.
> 
> Can storage tell the devices apart so that it knows which ones to leave
> to the kernel solution and which devices to accept so that udev can
> issue an eject command?

Maybe.  Depends on how identical the devices are.  We would need to compare
descriptors between the two devices.

Matt

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