Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] let BLK_DEV_UB depend onEMBEDDED

[Alan Stern]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Ed Tomlinson wrote:

> Its not that they just enable it.  Its that it has side effects.  I enable it to support
> one device - it then 'devnaps' other devices that usbstorage supports _much_
> better.  Is there some way it could work in reverse.  eg. let ub bind only if 
> usbstorage does not, possibly making usbstorage a _little_ more conservative
> if ub is present?

Unfortunately there isn't any way to define which driver should bind to a 
device, if they are both capable of controlling it.  Maybe there should 
be.  It might not be too hard to add a sysfs interface for that sort of 
thing.

Alan Stern

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