Re: Drivers need for usb file system

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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:26:47PM +0800, vichy wrote:
> Dear all:
> I am porting ehci-host driver on my arm platform.
> So far the host seems correctly enabled, but I have no idea how to
> read the contents of USB storages as Ubuntu does.

That would be up to the usb-storage driver, have you loaded that?

> I find there is a tool called hotplug which can automatically do the
> job for me,

hotplug is deprecated, please use udev instead.

And that just controls the loading of kernel modules (and other stuff
like creating device nodes), not reading from a file system.

> but I have trouble to cross-compile it on my platform.

hotplug was shell scripts, no binary at all, I don't think you are
looking at the correct thing.

> And I decide to build the drivers I need one by one.
> If someone knows the whole list of drivers I need, please let me know.
> ( The module utility is fail on my platform, so I use build-in to
> develop driver.)

usb-storage.

> BTW, I find usbcore register a char device as major, 180 but I cannot
> see any device node with major as 180 when I plug my usb-flash into my
> ubuntu.

That's because usb-storage is a block device, not a character one.

good luck,

greg k-h

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