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,
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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[unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature]