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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: usb storage traces
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:14:21 -0800
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To: Pat LaVarre <p.lavarre@ieee.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>, Matthew Dharm <mdharm-scsi@one-eyed-alien.net>, Alex Sanks <alex@netchip.com>, Julian Back <jback@mpc-data.co.uk>

Pat LaVarre wrote:
>>>What is FSG?
>>
>>...
>>... File-backed Storage Gadget.  
>>It's a driver for a Linux-based USB _device_ (as opposed to _host_) that 
>>emulates a USB Mass Storage device, using a file or block device as 
>>backing storage in somewhat the same manner as the loop driver.
>>... Unfortunately, ...
> 
> 
> Wow, our lead FSG developer has no Linux USB _device_.

Well, he does have the "dummy_hcd" which lets him test
on the same machine running the USB host ... I'll leave
it to experts to contrast that with CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG.

The driver was basically working before it hit real
hardware.


> Ouch.  Some sponsor with money should fix that.

Or Santa Claus ... ;)

- Dave