From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933322AbXCBLRb (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 06:17:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933335AbXCBLRb (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 06:17:31 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:36861 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933322AbXCBLRb (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 06:17:31 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:21:30 +0000 From: Alan To: Pierre Ossman Cc: Werner LEMBERG , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Memory stick reader Ricoh R5C592 supported? Message-ID: <20070302122130.2004419d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <45E7F13E.60408@drzeus.cx> References: <20070302.102351.146595518.wl@gnu.org> <45E7F13E.60408@drzeus.cx> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.2 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Memory stick is completely unsupported. We haven't got any specs for neither the > the host controllers or the protocol. So I would guess it would be quite some > time before memorystick is supported directly by Linux. Don't hold your breath either. The reverse engineering work done a long time ago on some of the memory sticks suggests the "security" (DRM) features are actually done in software by the driver so I doubt we'll see specs soon. Alan