From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423054AbXCBMPc (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 07:15:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423055AbXCBMPc (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 07:15:32 -0500 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([217.147.92.49]:54042 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423054AbXCBMPb (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 07:15:31 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:15:12 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett To: Alan Cc: Pierre Ossman , Werner LEMBERG , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20070302121512.GD1212@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20070302.102351.146595518.wl@gnu.org> <45E7F13E.60408@drzeus.cx> <20070302122130.2004419d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070302122130.2004419d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk Subject: Re: Memory stick reader Ricoh R5C592 supported? X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:35:45 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on vavatch.codon.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:21:30PM +0000, Alan wrote: > Don't hold your breath either. The reverse engineering work done a long > time ago on some of the memory sticks suggests the "security" (DRM) > features are actually done in software by the driver so I doubt we'll see > specs soon. DRM on memory stick appears to be about as widely used as the secure part of SD, so I don't think that's intrinsically a problem. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org