Status update

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> 
> From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
> Date: 2004/09/27 Mon AM 12:31:40 GMT
> To: usbat2 <usbat2@lists.lysator.liu.se>
> Subject: Status update
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Again sorry that nothing has happened over the last couple of months. I'll be 
> getting back to work on this shortly.

Not a problem man :)
> 
> Just thought I would update you with my recent thoughts and with what has been 
> going on.
> 
> One thing which I mentioned before is the similarities between our driver and 
> the shuttle_usbat driver present in the kernel. In my more recent work, this 
> similarity has been growing. And it will grow, if I can keep the driver 
> working at the same time :)
> So, the final code will most likely be an extension to the shuttle_usbat 
> driver already present in the kernel - theres just no point duplicating the 
> code. I'll probably merge the work once I've got the driver in its current 
> state feature-complete.
> 
I didnt even realise there was a shuttle_usbat driver, i wonder if that would work as my, well was, described as a shuttle reader from lspci.
> Also, in the recent kernels, a new usb-storage driver has appeared (called 
> "ub"). Its marked as low performance, but the code is supposed to be clean and 
> good. THe problem with the old usb-storage driver is that it emulates the SCSI 
> subsystem infront of a USB/ATAPI backend - we're trying to do less of this 
> needless emulation in linux. UB is a more "raw" access driver.
> Currently, ub only supports the generic USB mass storage 
> specification/protocol, this is no good for our device where everything is 
> hidden behind a "vendor specific" transport (hence the need for our own driver 
> in the first place).
> I haven't looked at the ub code, I haven't even tried it yet. But it may well 
> be that at some point, our driver becomes an extension to ub.
I like the sound of the ub driver, personally i think its a better way forward moving away from scsi emulation for mass storage/cdrw etc
> 
> Glyn, if we're living near each other and you're ok with it, then it would be 
> a great help if you wouldn't mind lending me the device for a week or two. I'd 
> have no problem with getting you a CF reader device which already works with 
> linux in the meantime. I'd be interested to know what you think, just let me 
> get back into the swing of things first :)
> 
I would've been gladly to help you but i have had a major "system crash" *read, boiler in my house broke, which was right above all my computers etc so now i have lost everything* all i have left is my laptop, my digital camera and reader were both soaking wet, so i don't know how i can help:(

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Cheers Glyn

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