USB-Storage drivers

USB-Storage drivers

[Kurt Garloff]

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Hi Matthew, David, Linus,

any particular reason why the support for special dongles in the usb-storage
driver can not be selected during kernel configuration? (See attached patch).

I can only tell about the Freecom support in the usb-storage driver: It
works flawlessly for me driving some OnStream USB30 tape drive (with the
osst driver). So, I think it should be offered to people who want to try.

Of course, it's up to you. Maybe you want to put some ifdef CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
around it or a little help text. But I'd definitely appreciate the
possibility to compile the drivers without patching the Config file.

Regards,
-- 
Kurt Garloff                   <kurt@garloff.de>         [Eindhoven, NL]
Physics: Plasma simulations <k.garloff@phys.tue.nl>   [TU Eindhoven, NL]
Linux: SCSI, Security          <garloff@suse.de>   [SuSE Nuernberg, FRG]
 (See mail header or public key servers for PGP2 and GPG public keys.)

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diff -uNr linux-2.4.0-t11.ac2.reiser.ide.osst/drivers/usb/Config.in linux-2.4.0-t11.ac2.reiser.ide.osst.usb/drivers/usb/Config.in
--- linux-2.4.0-t11.ac2.reiser.ide.osst/drivers/usb/Config.in	Sun Nov 12 04:04:30 2000
+++ linux-2.4.0-t11.ac2.reiser.ide.osst.usb/drivers/usb/Config.in	Wed Nov 22 22:00:40 2000
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@
    dep_tristate '  USB Mass Storage support' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE $CONFIG_USB $CONFIG_SCSI
    if [ "$CONFIG_USB_STORAGE" != "n" ]; then
       bool '    USB Mass Storage verbose debug' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG
+      bool '    USB Mass Storage HP8200e support' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_HP8200e
+      bool '    USB Mass Storage SDDR09  support' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_SDDR09
+      bool '    USB Mass Storage DPCM    support' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DPCM
+      bool '    USB Mass Storage FreeCom support' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_FREECOM
    fi
    dep_tristate '  USS720 parport driver' CONFIG_USB_USS720 $CONFIG_USB $CONFIG_PARPORT
    dep_tristate '  DABUSB driver' CONFIG_USB_DABUSB $CONFIG_USB

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Re: USB-Storage drivers

[Matthew Dharm]

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Some of these sub-drivers are immature, even for the CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
label.  AFAIK, a patch is pending to make Freecom support appear -- it's
definately ready for prime-time, having been extensively tested by several
people.

Matt

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:16:23PM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> Hi Matthew, David, Linus,
> 
> any particular reason why the support for special dongles in the usb-storage
> driver can not be selected during kernel configuration? (See attached patch).
> 
> I can only tell about the Freecom support in the usb-storage driver: It
> works flawlessly for me driving some OnStream USB30 tape drive (with the
> osst driver). So, I think it should be offered to people who want to try.
> 
> Of course, it's up to you. Maybe you want to put some ifdef CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
> around it or a little help text. But I'd definitely appreciate the
> possibility to compile the drivers without patching the Config file.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Kurt Garloff                   <kurt@garloff.de>         [Eindhoven, NL]
> Physics: Plasma simulations <k.garloff@phys.tue.nl>   [TU Eindhoven, NL]
> Linux: SCSI, Security          <garloff@suse.de>   [SuSE Nuernberg, FRG]
>  (See mail header or public key servers for PGP2 and GPG public keys.)

> diff -uNr linux-2.4.0-t11.ac2.reiser.ide.osst/drivers/usb/Config.in linux-2.4.0-t11.ac2.reiser.ide.osst.usb/drivers/usb/Config.in
> --- linux-2.4.0-t11.ac2.reiser.ide.osst/drivers/usb/Config.in	Sun Nov 12 04:04:30 2000
> +++ linux-2.4.0-t11.ac2.reiser.ide.osst.usb/drivers/usb/Config.in	Wed Nov 22 22:00:40 2000
> @@ -64,6 +64,10 @@
>     dep_tristate '  USB Mass Storage support' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE $CONFIG_USB $CONFIG_SCSI
>     if [ "$CONFIG_USB_STORAGE" != "n" ]; then
>        bool '    USB Mass Storage verbose debug' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG
> +      bool '    USB Mass Storage HP8200e support' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_HP8200e
> +      bool '    USB Mass Storage SDDR09  support' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_SDDR09
> +      bool '    USB Mass Storage DPCM    support' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DPCM
> +      bool '    USB Mass Storage FreeCom support' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_FREECOM
>     fi
>     dep_tristate '  USS720 parport driver' CONFIG_USB_USS720 $CONFIG_USB $CONFIG_PARPORT
>     dep_tristate '  DABUSB driver' CONFIG_USB_DABUSB $CONFIG_USB




-- 
Matthew Dharm                              Home: mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net 
Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver

Stef, you just got beaten by a ball of DIRT.
					-- Greg
User Friendly, 12/7/1997

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Re: USB-Storage drivers

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:16:23PM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> Hi Matthew, David, Linus,
> 
> any particular reason why the support for special dongles in the usb-storage
> driver can not be selected during kernel configuration? (See attached patch).

A patch is pending that I submitted that adds the
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_FREECOM option and cleans up the whole USB
configuration section.  See the archive of the linux-usb-devel list for
a copy of it (or just ask, I have it around here somewhere...)

thanks,

greg k-h

-- 
greg@(kroah|wirex).com
http://immunix.org/~greg
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