Some of these sub-drivers are immature, even for the CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL label. AFAIK, a patch is pending to make Freecom support appear -- it's definately ready for prime-time, having been extensively tested by several people. Matt On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:16:23PM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote: > Hi Matthew, David, Linus, > > any particular reason why the support for special dongles in the usb-storage > driver can not be selected during kernel configuration? (See attached patch). > > I can only tell about the Freecom support in the usb-storage driver: It > works flawlessly for me driving some OnStream USB30 tape drive (with the > osst driver). So, I think it should be offered to people who want to try. > > Of course, it's up to you. Maybe you want to put some ifdef CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL > around it or a little help text. But I'd definitely appreciate the > possibility to compile the drivers without patching the Config file. > > Regards, > -- > Kurt Garloff [Eindhoven, NL] > Physics: Plasma simulations [TU Eindhoven, NL] > Linux: SCSI, Security [SuSE Nuernberg, FRG] > (See mail header or public key servers for PGP2 and GPG public keys.) > diff -uNr linux-2.4.0-t11.ac2.reiser.ide.osst/drivers/usb/Config.in linux-2.4.0-t11.ac2.reiser.ide.osst.usb/drivers/usb/Config.in > --- linux-2.4.0-t11.ac2.reiser.ide.osst/drivers/usb/Config.in Sun Nov 12 04:04:30 2000 > +++ linux-2.4.0-t11.ac2.reiser.ide.osst.usb/drivers/usb/Config.in Wed Nov 22 22:00:40 2000 > @@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ > dep_tristate ' USB Mass Storage support' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE $CONFIG_USB $CONFIG_SCSI > if [ "$CONFIG_USB_STORAGE" != "n" ]; then > bool ' USB Mass Storage verbose debug' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG > + bool ' USB Mass Storage HP8200e support' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_HP8200e > + bool ' USB Mass Storage SDDR09 support' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_SDDR09 > + bool ' USB Mass Storage DPCM support' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DPCM > + bool ' USB Mass Storage FreeCom support' CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_FREECOM > fi > dep_tristate ' USS720 parport driver' CONFIG_USB_USS720 $CONFIG_USB $CONFIG_PARPORT > dep_tristate ' DABUSB driver' CONFIG_USB_DABUSB $CONFIG_USB -- Matthew Dharm Home: mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver Stef, you just got beaten by a ball of DIRT. -- Greg User Friendly, 12/7/1997