On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:04:19AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 2 May 2006, Glenn Maynard wrote:
>
> > > So, why won't we simply encode the knowledge about things which
> > > are safe for ub in a monstrous if-if-if statement? I considered
> > > this, but found it a) not safe enough, b) clumsy, c) redundant.
> >
> > I guess it seems more clumsy and redundant to me to do it by hand,
> > maintaining several dozen extra flags, rather than a bit of code.
> > But, I don't fully understand the interaction between libusual and
> > unusual_devs, so I'm sure you're right.
>
> I wouldn't be just a _bit_ of code. The code would have to include all
> the information that's in the table -- which means it would end up being
> larger than the table is. Not to mention more error prone, because it
> would mix up a lot of C stuff along with the table information, thus
> making it more difficult to separate the general logic from the
> device-specific flags.
I think all I was visualizing was eg:
int get_us_type(const struct us_data *us)
{
// flags that don't indicate that a device won't work with UB:
int permitted_flags = US_FL_FIX_CAPACITY;
if((us->flags & ~permitted_flags) != 0)
return USB_US_TYPE_STOR;
if(us->unusual_dev->initFunction != NULL)
return USB_US_TYPE_STOR;
return 0;
}
used by usb_usual_check_type. Aside from the obvious problem that us_data
is usb-storage's, not libusual's--would need a copy of us_unusual_dev_list[]--
this is also incorrect, since I don't fully understand the criteria for the
flag. But that's the sort of thing I was thinking--not anything enormous.
--
Glenn Maynard
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