From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:53:00 +0000 Subject: Re: UDEV : ASUS Laptop G73S MultiCard Reader Message-Id: <20110717185300.GA29648@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <4E217D77.7030503@gatworks.com> In-Reply-To: <4E217D77.7030503@gatworks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:50:31AM -0400, Postmaster wrote: > > >That is because this is a different device, and it says it is a > >vendor-specific protocol, which will not work with the usb-storage > >driver, sorry. > > I Disagree with most of what u suggest. I'm sorry to hear that. > Who knows what vendor specific means. And you really wont know until > you try. Which is why there are tables to handle Unusual Devices. If a vendor says it is not a mass-storage device, why do you think they are lying? And the term, "vendor specific" has a very specific definition, see the USB specification if you are curious as to what it is. > At this time there is a realtek driver in the latest kern code. I > would like to load up this driver when usb-core detects this device. > > Right now, I have not found the udev rule for loading up usb-storage. There is no such rule, the usb device id causes it to happen through modprobe of the module alias of the device. > So where are the udev system specs This is not something that udev does at all, sorry. > BTW: is there a way to disable, and enable the device? Since this > usb device is internal, if I have too many "printk" or DBG messages > at boot-up time, it tends to overflow the rsyslogd daemon. > > btw#2 where is this forum? All one sees in the written docs is to > email questions, rather than post questions to a forum. Yes, this is done through email, not a web forum. greg k-h