On 06/14/2011 01:06 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > USB front, there are also instances of devices claiming compliance > with the standard protocols, but in fact, lying. Which means that > the standard USB "UAC-1" and "UAC-2" class drivers in Linux are > *doomed* to malfunction in certain ways, because they're being > lied to by the hardware. In some cases, it's worse than that. As you probably know, when you hook up a flash drive under Windows, it shows it in My Computer, named by the drive's label if it has one. In Linux, it shows up on the desktop, named for its brand, even if it has a label. I asked about this on the USB dev's list and they told me that when the drive's detected, the software tells the system everything and it's up to the DE's devs to fix this. I mounted a drive that I know had a label, then ran: dmesg | grep USB and saw that the detection software was not, in fact, reporting the label. I posted this to the list, and was told in no uncertain terms to "shut up and go away!" I think it's fair to say that in this case, not only didn't they know about the problem, they didn't want to know; they just wanted to point their finger at Somebody Else, and pretend that it wasn't their responsibility. If this is their attitude when the hardware's known to respond correctly if queried, it's not hard to imagine how they're going to respond in cases like what you're describing. And, in case any of you are wondering, I would have hoped that their response to my second post was more along the lines of, "Oh, I guess it isn't reporting the label. We'll have to look into that one of these days." -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
