Re: [PATCH] Missing usb_find_device symbol from usb.c

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Thu Jan 24 2008 - 07:21:46 EST


Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008 12:52:45 schrieb Pekka Enberg:
> Hi Oliver,
>
> On Jan 24, 2008 1:49 PM, Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
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