Re: drivers/block/ub.c

From: Matthew Dharm
Date: Sat Jun 26 2004 - 22:32:44 EST


On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 07:08:27PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:12:25 -0700
> Matthew Dharm <mdharm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Would I be correct in the following assessments:
> > (1) UB only supports direct-access type devices
> > (2) UB only supports 'transparent scsi' devices
> > (3) UB only supports 'bulk-only transport' devices
>
> Yes, you would. Someone mentioned on usb-storage list that Windows supports
> two things only without extra drivers: Transparent SCSI over Bulk, and UFI.
> IIRC, it was Pat. So, I thought maybe to tackle drivers/block/ufi.c later,
> to share design concept and some libraries with ub. The rest stays with
> usb-storage. But the real life always introduces corrections to plans, so
> let's not get too far ahead.

Do you have a plan for non "direct-access" devices?

CD-ROMs are common, but tapes exist also.

Matt

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