Re: [PATCH] Missing usb_find_device symbol from usb.c

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Oliver,

On Jan 24, 2008 1:49 PM, Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A quick glance through the files at sourceforge indicates that this
> device use a file transfer protocol. Mapping this to a simple device
> is hard. A fs is quite natural a representation of that.

Sure but the filesystems in fs/ are general purpose and they can be
mounted on top of any block device (except for the in-memory ones like
sysfs). Furthermore, the problem with iriverfs is that it assumes that
there can be only one device plugged to the host. What we want is
something like

  $ mount -t iriverfs /dev/iriver0 /mnt/media

Which can be accomplished with an USB driver in driver/usb/ that
registers the special iriverfs.

                        Pekka
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