Bug#516258: ITP: ozerocdoff -- temporarily disables ZeroCD
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Julien Valroff wrote:
> Sorry for top-posting, I CC Aurélien and Didier as they are dealing with
> usb-modeswitch which plays the same role as ozerocdoff hence leave your
> full answer below.
>
> Thanks for your help and explanations. I think we can work with both
> Aurélien and Didier to fill these bugs. If we can avoid using userspace
> utilities (be it rezero, oozerocdoff or usb-modeswitch), that would
> indeed be great, but do you think kernel developers will agree to
> completely de-activate CD emulation possibilities? Don't you think they
> **might** have a use for Linux users in the future?
Yes, they will agree do deactivate it on any devices that get broken by it
such as the "Option GSM modem" (i.e. that don't work as GSM modems while the
cdrom emulation is enabled).
Without a way to issue the flash-write commands to burn a new ISO into the
cdrom emulator on the GSM modem, it is pretty useless to Linux users, so it
shouldn't be too dificult to get a generic patch that avoid usb-storage to
bind to GSM modems merged, and selectively let usb-storage bind to a GSM
modem if anyone ever brings to our notice a GSM modem device that has
anything useful to do with such an emulated cdrom.
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Henrique Holschuh
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