On Mon, 19 Aug 2013, Philippe De Swert wrote: > Hi, > > On 18/08/13 17:52, Alan Stern wrote: > >> Now there is some discussion about having a userpace library to handle > >> the creation of all the necessary files easily. But I cannot find a > >> trace of it. Does it exist already? > > > > No mention of it has appeared on the mailing list. > > From: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/27/341 > > "Couldn't we have a tool to manage all this? > target has such a thing, you have just select a few things via a CLI > tool and the tool creates the directories for you _and_ removes them > later on. > I don't want to push python on anyone but the removal magic is simply > straight forward: unlink the disk ports, rmdir luns, tpgt,� " > > Or http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=132431126927355&w=2 > > "> I understand that the echo/mkdir like interface is not perfect for > > everybody. For target there is a python tool that handles it so you/the > > user does not see configfs internals. The problem with python is that > > small users which ship just a busybox as their RFS might consider python > > as too big. Therefore I would suggest a small C program/library and > > Yeah, a library is the way to go. It also "standardizes" the usage, > allows for lots of language bindings - so if you want to use > python/ruby/perl/C#/etc you can - and allows the whole thing to go into > products." > > Or maybe I misunderstood your answer and it means nothing like that made > yet? Right -- nobody has mentioned building such a tool yet. > And does somebody know where that python tool might be available? Not me. 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
