From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Hamilton Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:55:31 +0000 Subject: Re: usb-mount (hotplug + desktop hooks) Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org While these busted devices are a bit of a pain, I don't like the idea of saying device-X can't be supported, or that more than one of device-X can't be supported. Especially when it operates quite well on other operating systems. If we want these bad-devices to work, I don't think there is any other alternative than to provide a range of generic mount points in addition to well identified ones. Providing unknown devices stay on the same generic mount-points for the duration of their presence, I don't think this approach will be much harder to understand than the similar situation that arises when you have to sort through a pile of floppies. This is especially true if the desktop provides some kind of visual indication that devices have appeared and disappeared. For example, my scripted K-desktop solution immediately mounts the device and changes the associated icon ( http://users.actrix.co.nz/michael/usbmount.html ). On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 04:39, Gary_Lerhaupt@Dell.com wrote: > Well, my flashcard reader seems to have a good USB GUID that is consistent > in at least 2 different systems I've plugged it into. However, it has a > bad scsi_unique_id of "1F00". So, in its case, the --usb-guid would seem > to have worth. > > As far as devices that aren't consistently unique, devlabel can already > handle this in the way that you would like (albeit, as long as you don't > plug in at the same time both USB storage devices made by the same vendor > but with bad scsi_unique_ids). Just add a generic symlink for that type of > device like /dev/genericusb and regardless of which you plug-in, it will > get mapped to that symlink. Perhaps, I could add a --force to allow the > user to connect 2 devices with the same ID at the same time. I'd be > worried that an unknowing user might hurt himself with this, though. > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Are you worried about your web server security? Click here for a FREE Thawte Apache SSL Guide and answer your Apache SSL security needs: http://www.gothawte.com/rd523.html _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel