Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008 12:52:45 schrieb Pekka Enberg: > Hi Oliver, > > On Jan 24, 2008 1:49 PM, Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/