Thanks for your help robert, at least nw the menu bit can work.. which
is the most important from an end users perspective.. I can always short
cut the mounting side of things with the usb.py plugin i sent to the
devel list. It adds an option for a command to issue when a particular
device disapeear.. (so unmount also..)
Mick
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 00:42, Robert Winder wrote:
> I give up.
>
> It has something to do with the vfs implementation. But where it goes
> wrong excactly i really can't tell. But what i said earlier
>
> if line.lower().find('mass storage') != -1:
>
> should be
>
> if line.lower().find('storage') != -1:
>
> in misc.py still stands. Device shows up in menu but doesn't get
> mounted. Pretty useless plugin then without the mounting part ;-)
> Of course the USB HOTPLUG cmd can be used for mounting but i know
> from personal experience that it mounted and umounted the usb device
> whithout prob in freevo < 1.4
>
>
> /Robert
>
> Friday, April 30, 2004, 12:23:26 PM, Robert wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > oohps half way there, device shows up in menu but doesn't get mounted
> > automaticly. Gonna look a bit further into it.
>
>
> > /Robert
>
> > Friday, April 30, 2004, 11:05:21 AM, Robert wrote:
>
> >> Hi,
>
> >> Duh, a search through /proc/bus/usb/devices revealed the culprit.
>
> >> Found the problem in misc.py line 300
>
> >> if line.lower().find('mass storage') != -1:
>
> >> should be
>
> >> if line.lower().find('storage') != -1:
>
> >> Probably kernel 2.4 and 2.6 usb/mass storage module naming is
> >> different. A find for 'storage' is enough to get it going for both
> >> modules
>
> >> my cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
>
> >> If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=ff Prot=01 Driver=usb-storage
>
> >> Or changing back to usb_id as an identifier is maybe a better solution
> >> if one has multiple usb-storage devices.
>
>
> >> /Robert
>
> >> Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 7:11:59 PM, Robert wrote:
>
> >>> Mick,
>
> >>> Sorry no i didn't wrote this stuff but last week i did give it another
> >>> try, but as i replied earlier i couldn't make it work also. What i
> >>> recall it did work somewhere last august, september. Early this year
> >>> camera.py changed into usbstorage.py but from what i can see in CVS
> >>> nothing changed substantially when doing a diff. The mounting and
> >>> making the mounted dir visible is indeed hacked away somewhere in the
> >>> process..
>
> >>> So imo there are two options:
>
> >>> - Find a freevo tarball from august, september last year and debug it
> >>> with this code. Problem is i can't find any freevo tarball < 1.4 . If
> >>> someone can point me to it ? (complete tarball is bit easier then
> >>> browsing cvs, i think)
>
> >>> - as dischi stated earlier this week devel is a bit slow now and if
> >>> you doesn't want it to be buried in this list file it as a bug report.
> >>> Haven't got the time to this myself right know because i have to leave i
> >>> a few secs.
>
>
>
> >>> /Robert
>
> >>> Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 6:29:08 AM, Mick wrote:
>
> >>>> Hi Robert.
>
> >>>> I tried the best I could, and I cannot get this going...
>
> >>>> Did you write the plugin? I think wether or not the directory is
> >>>> mounting is relavtily easy to fix, the problem is making the directoy
> >>>> visible in freevo only when the device is available.. This part of the
> >>>> code I simply connot reverse engineer. To be honest, it looks like this
> >>>> part of the code does not exist.. It seems so simple i'm a little bit
> >>>> peaved I can't work out whats going on..
>
> >>>> Maybe it is something inferred by something else.. Like the Dir item..
> >>>> In any case i can only appoligise for being stupid.. But can someone
> >>>> help me with this?
>
> >>>> Mick
> >>>> On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 02:49, Robert Winder wrote:
> >>>>> Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 5:01:50 PM, Dirk wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> > Mick wrote:
> >>>>> >> Dischi,
> >>>>> >>
> >>>>> >> Can you please explain to me how usbtorage.py is meant to funtion with
> >>>>> >> refference to usb.py?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> > No, I didn't wrote usbtorage.py. I can only say that usb.py will force
> >>>>> > a menu rebuild when you add/remove usb devices.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> >> I can't see any refference to calling mount or umount.. I'm happy to
> >>>>> >> make this my first contribution, but need your advice as to how its
> >>>>> >> meant to work..
> >>>>>
> >>>>> > It should mount. If it doesn't, it's a bug. Maybe the guy who wrote it
> >>>>> > used an automounter.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It doesn't.. so it's a bug then. Strange thing is i got it working with
> >>>>> camera.py a while ago without using automount. And usbstorage.py is
> >>>>> basicly the same code as camera.py was. Not sure where it goes wrong
> >>>>> but i look into it and i'll try to find out what the diff is. Probably
> >>>>> tomorrow.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> >> Its such a simple process that I don't see the need to patch a
> >>>>> >> kernel or install another dependancy to get it going..
> >>>>>
> >>>>> > It should work using mount and umount.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What i meant was that for usb storage devices some kernelside options
> >>>>> are needed. In other words make sure if USB mounting works outside
> >>>>> freevo. :-) But we probably passed that stage.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> /Robert
> >>>>>
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