On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Phil Dibowitz wrote: > > > > I believe we should at least try to send "eject" command to these > > > devices once they are detected, as that is sufficient to switch the > > > mode for most of them, and I don't think it has potential to break > > > anything. And we could simply. > > An eject command doesn't work, and in fact there's userspace tools to switch > > the mode. See the thread on linux-usb with the hardware manufacturer. > > Yes, I am aware of the tool. Quite unfortunate that we can't do this is > kernel, it's very inconvenient for users. Oh well, just another proof that > hardware vendors are ... uhm ... creative bunch of people. By the way, do any of you think it would help to have a userspace utility program for sending an Eject command to a USB mass-storage device even when that device wasn't bound to the usb-storage driver? I could write such a utility without too much trouble. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
