On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:12:20AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 16:07 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Yes they are. You'll need an appropriate fdi file to indicate that > > they're an ipod, though. > > To be clear, apps like AmaroK / Rhythmbox would just talk to the iPod > via libgpod or similar directly. The FUSE method of 'mounting' iPods is > just another way of talking to libgpod, to give you the convenient user > interface of a mounted filesystem, but it doesn't really make sense for > other applications to go through the fake filesystem rather than just > using the library to talk to the device directly. Right, but my understanding was that various applications required a mount point to be flagged as belonging to an ipod for them to use libgpod on it. The ipod touch and iphone can't be used as mass-storage devices - they speak a custom USB protocol which has been implemented as a fuse driver. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
