On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 07:38:12PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Matthew Dharm wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:35:56AM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:33:28AM -0800, Matthew Dharm wrote: > >>> Someone remind me again why we bother masking out the fake CD-ROM in these > >>> devices? > >>> > >> It's confusing to users, and completely useless -- it's added by the > >> manufacturer because Another OS can only autorun from a cdrom, which > >> they need to do to be able to install drivers. > > > > Beyond being confusing to users, does it cause any *problems*? > > > > I'm hesitant to add code which doesn't actually *fix* anything. > > > > Well it fixes the very annoying fact that when you plug one of these in and > are > using a hal enabled desktop first a filemanager window with your files pops > up > and then when you want to navigate to the correct dir a filemanger window > with > autorun.inf and other stuff pops up.
Then shouldn't you talk to the people who write the code to make the window
pop up? That's a desktop environment issue, not a driver issue.
> But I believe that just adding prove only a single lun flag entry for these
> is
> wrong. I would like to advocate a special U3 flag and a mod param / sysfs
> attribute for the usb-massstorage driver which allows one to configure the
> behaviour. Some people have come up with all kind of ingenious uses for the
> cdrom emulation.
This is overly complex, and doesn't really solve anything. The fake CD-ROM
is there. Who knows what's on it? If the desktop wants to ignore it,
that's fine... but as a transport-oriented driver, usb-storage should
cleanly transport the commands as much as possible.
> Still I believe that some kernel support is needed to avoid the _very_
> annoying
> popping up of the second useless lun, but this should be a special U3 flag so
> that it can be configured. Also note that U3 is not sandisk only, there is an
> U3 consortium and others may very well come with U3 disks in the future too.
Definately not. If the poping up of a window is the problem, then fix the
window; don't fix the driver.
Matt
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