From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261570AbULTPlr (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:41:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261577AbULTPhk (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:37:40 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:35508 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261571AbULTPhQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:37:16 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:35:08 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Alan Stern Cc: Ed Tomlinson , Pete Zaitcev , Matthew Dharm , "Randy.Dunlap" , Adrian Bunk , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] let BLK_DEV_UB depend on EMBEDDED Message-ID: <20041220153508.GB17121@kroah.com> References: <200412200702.50071.edt@aei.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:28:05AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > > Its not that they just enable it. Its that it has side effects. I enable it to support > > one device - it then 'devnaps' other devices that usbstorage supports _much_ > > better. Is there some way it could work in reverse. eg. let ub bind only if > > usbstorage does not, possibly making usbstorage a _little_ more conservative > > if ub is present? > > Unfortunately there isn't any way to define which driver should bind to a > device, if they are both capable of controlling it. Maybe there should > be. It might not be too hard to add a sysfs interface for that sort of > thing. We are working on it... thanks, greg k-h