[H-GEN] USB on Linux

[Frank Brand]

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I think you know what I meant...that in Windows the whole thing is a lot
more transparent, it just happens, you dont know (and, in true object
oriented style dont need to know about the implementation - just need your
device to work) about SCSI-IDE translations etc, unless you look in Control
Panel and I would guess that a large proportion of Windows users dont even
know whats in the Control Panel.


>I do agree that you shouldn't need to know how to configure this stuff.
>The average user hasn't even heard of SCSI.  However, I was under the
>impression that the major dists include all available modules by default,
>so the average user should have this already available (that's the
>distributors problem if they don't - certainly the last RH dist I saw
>seemed to have every kernel module known to man included in the
>/lib/modules/ver/ directories).


Well no, what if you dont have SCSI stuff installed and dont get the correct
mount points and later want to use USB stuff that depends on SCSI that you
neither have nor understand why you need it? my system installed no SCSI
mount points by default as I did not have SCSI gear. No /sda, sdb, /sdc etc.


>Admittedly, those users who don't know SCSI, but want to compile a kernel
>will have problems, but fortunately the new kernel configuration stuff in
>the 2.5.x kernels should pick up the SCSI dependencies of anything you
>select, and include it for you.


Hopefully yes.

Frank Brand


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