From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:13:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:13:39 -0500 Received: from ziggy.one-eyed-alien.net ([216.120.107.189]:21002 "EHLO ziggy.one-eyed-alien.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:13:25 -0500 Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:41:42 -0800 From: Matthew Dharm To: Alastair Foster Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Camera as a USB mass storage / SCSI device Message-ID: <20001231134142.D6652@one-eyed-alien.net> Mail-Followup-To: Alastair Foster , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <379744379.978294325610.JavaMail.root@web582-mc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k4f25fnPtRuIRUb3" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <379744379.978294325610.JavaMail.root@web582-mc>; from alasta@mail.com on Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:25:25PM -0500 Organization: One Eyed Alien Networks X-Copyright: (C) 2000 Matthew Dharm, all rights reserved. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --k4f25fnPtRuIRUb3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:25:25PM -0500, Alastair Foster wrote: > Unfortunately, my camera does not get recognised on bootup. This is hardly > surprising, given that the kernel has no way of determining the camera as= a > USB mass storage device. However, I'm curious as to how others have mana= ged > to get away with this by doing nothing more than compiling their kernel w= ith > the above options. Not quite true... USB devices carry a ClassID, which (for most mass storage devices) indicates that it is compliant to the USB Mass Storage Specification. So, the database is only for devices that are slightly out of spec or have descriptors that are not truthful. Matt --=20 Matthew Dharm Home: mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.= net=20 Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver It was a new hope. -- Dust Puppy User Friendly, 12/25/1998 --k4f25fnPtRuIRUb3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6T6gWz64nssGU+ykRAuUEAKDCeGrT8MP/JbR6lomo1af/QK37OACdEI7+ viCJX4p/wwCrzBN7KZj0Q2o= =z3vm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k4f25fnPtRuIRUb3-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/