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From: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Ben Collins <ben.collins@canonical.com>
Cc: usb-storage <usb-storage@lists.one-eyed-alien.net>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [usb-storage] Ambiguous dupe in libusual device list
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:10:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080626191010.GD31004@one-eyed-alien.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1214501556.7150.36.camel@cunning>

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On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 01:32:36PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> In unusual_devs.h, there are these two entries:
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DATAFAB
> /* Submitted by Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> */
> UNUSUAL_DEV(  0x07c4, 0xa109, 0x0000, 0xffff,

> #ifdef CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_SDDR55
> /* SM part - aeb <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> */
> UNUSUAL_DEV(  0x07c4, 0xa109, 0x0000, 0xffff,

> If I'm not mistaken (and because libusual is pretty well abstracted, I
> might be) this is an ambiguous dupe that isn't resolved with any
> checking (IOW, the second entry is likely never used), at least when
> both config options are enabled.

Reading the code, it looks like it's a bit more complex than that.

The first entry enables use of a driver (if it's compiled it) which can
drive both slots on a dual-slot device.

The first entry enables use of a driver (if it's compiled it) which can
only drive one slot on a dual-slot device.

This is really the type of thing which shows that we need some sort of
semi-generic "preference" mechanism for driver binding...

Matt

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-26 17:32 Ambiguous dupe in libusual device list Ben Collins
2008-06-26 19:10 ` Matthew Dharm [this message]

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