Re: [PATCH] move eject code from zd1211rw to usb-storage

From: Josua Dietze
Date: Thu Dec 17 2009 - 08:33:23 EST


Oliver Neukum schrieb:

Am Mittwoch, 16. Dezember 2009 20:52:58 schrieb Matthew Dharm:
If this is the case, then the only reasonable answer to is to push the
modeswitch code for both into udev and out of the kernel. It will take
you mean usb_modeswitch, not udev actually.
That is correct; I had mis-typed. Tho, the actual implementation is udev
calling usb_modeswitch and/or eject.

Can storage tell the devices apart so that it knows which ones to leave
to the kernel solution and which devices to accept so that udev can
issue an eject command?

If you are thinking about the two specific devices at hand there is no need to tell them apart. Same IDs on plugin, same switching procedure, different IDs on return, different drivers take care.

If you are thinking generally, there is already a case when:
same IDs on plugin, different switching procedures.
See "option_ms.c"; the solution was to check for SCSI ID strings and only act if there's a match. I filed this patch to enable userspace handling for a different device with the same IDs.

This is also the way usb_modeswitch (via wrapping script) is handling ambiguities right now.
(BTW, the next version has no more compiler warnings. No big deal.)


Cheers,
Josua
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