On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Viral Mehta wrote: > I want to store drivers/software for Windows > as well as Linux BUT on different partitions and "on board". Why on different partitions? Doesn't that just make your life harder? What's wrong with putting everything into multiple top-level directories on the same partition? > Now, when I connect my device to Windows, *partition-1* will be mounted > automatically and will install the driver/software from that partition. > And similarly if I connect to Linux, it will mount *partition-2* > and will install driver/software from that partition. You mean: you _want_ it to mount partition-2, not it _will_ mount partition-2. IIUC, the problem is that currently it does _not_ mount partition-2. > To accomplish this, my device will need to know which USB host it is being connected to. > And as in USB everything is host centric, > I am not able to identify how my device can know about which Operating System USB host is running. There is no reliable way to do this. > I thought something on getting this information from USB enumeration Pattern. But this method is patented, > http://www.wikipatents.com/US-Patent-7574534/method-for-using-device-enumeration-information-to-identify-an Even if you can track the commands sent during device enumeration or initialization, what will you do if a later version of Windows decides to use a different sequence of commands? No, you're much better off making everything the same -- all files available on all systems. Besides, what if somebody wants to copy the Windows drivers and files from your device, but has only a Linux computer available to do the copying? 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
