On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 7:28 PM Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Andrzej Pietrasiewicz wrote: > > > This is a continuation of this thread: > > > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg78189.html > > > > The prerequisite for providing the configfs interface for USB gadgets > > and all their users is converting them to the new function interface > from Sebastian. > > After all the smoke clears, will it be possible for a busy user -- who > just wants to create a mass-storage gadget without jumping through all the > hoops involved in setting up configfs entries -- to keep on using the same > old simple interface we have now, i.e., > > modprobe g-mass-storage file=... > > ? I can't tell, because this discussion has been so long and complicated. > > (Note that if something very much like the old interface does not remain > available, a lot of people will be upset.) > I think that ultimately (after some, potentially long, time) there will be no old interface. But this kind of questions should probably go to Felipe. In the meantime, I guess, some kind of adapter modules which look to the user as the old ones but internally manipulate configfs things will be possible. AP -- 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
