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Kernel release status

Posted Oct 21, 2004 12:01 UTC (Thu) by zezaz (guest, #5465)
Parent article: Kernel release status

Just curious: what are the main differences between the new USB storage driver and the old one?

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Posted Oct 21, 2004 20:53 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

From what I see, the new driver (drivers/block/ub.c) doesn't depend on SCSI and supports only a narrow class of devices, such as Olympus cameras. I cannot find any reason why this driver was written other than getting rid of the SCSI dependency.

Kernel release status

Posted Oct 22, 2004 20:16 UTC (Fri) by zezaz (guest, #5465) [Link]

Thank you for this response. This change seems interesting enough, AFAIR the same thing happened for ATAPI CD writing which got rid of the SCSI dependency in the 2.5.x series. Let us just hope that the compatibility will get broader again. And that Linux on an USB stick will become easier to handle after this change!